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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2017.10
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79457
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2017/7945/
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Šestáková, Eliška ; Janoušek, Jan

Indexing XML Documents Using Tree Paths Automaton

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Abstract

An XML document can be viewed as a tree in a natural way. Processing tree data structures usually requires a pushdown automaton as a model of computation. Therefore, it is interesting that a finite automaton can be used to solve the XML index problem. In this paper, we attempt to support a significant fragment of XPath queries which may use any combination of child (i.e., /) and descendant-or-self (i.e., //) axis. A systematic approach to the construction of such XML index, which is a finite automaton called Tree Paths Automaton, is presented. Given an XML tree model T, the tree is first of all preprocessed by means of its linear fragments called string paths. Since only path queries are considered, the branching structure of the XML tree model can be omitted. For individual string paths, smaller Tree Paths Automata are built, and they are afterwards combined to form the index. The searching phase uses the index, reads an input query Q of size m, and computes the list of positions of all occurrences of Q in the tree T. The searching is performed in time O(m) and does not depend on the size of the XML document. Although the number of queries is clearly exponential in the number of nodes of the XML tree model, the size of the index seems to be, according to our experimental results, usually only about 2.5 times larger than the size of the original document.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{estkov_et_al:OASIcs:2017:7945,
  author =	{Eli{\v{s}}ka {\v{S}}est{\'a}kov{\'a} and Jan Janou{\v{s}}ek},
  title =	{{Indexing XML Documents Using Tree Paths Automaton}},
  booktitle =	{6th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2017)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:14},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-056-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{56},
  editor =	{Ricardo Queir{\'o}s and M{\'a}rio Pinto and Alberto Sim{\~o}es and Jos{\'e} Paulo Leal and Maria Jo{\~a}o Varanda},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7945},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79457},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2017.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: XML, XPath, index, tree, finite automaton}
}

Keywords: XML, XPath, index, tree, finite automaton
Collection: 6th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2017)
Issue Date: 2017
Date of publication: 04.10.2017

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