A Survey of a family of recursive query languages for XML Data

Abstract EN

XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for information exchange on the World Wide Web.

The ability to intelligently query XML data becomes increasingly important.

Several query languages are proposed in the literature, they are mainly different in the underlying model and in the power of expression.

This article present and compare a family of recursive query languages for querying and restructuring XML data.

XML, Tree, Embedding, GROUP BY, Fix point,.