Departmental Papers (CIS)
Date of this Version
2010
Document Type
Conference Paper
Recommended Citation
Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, and Yifei Zheng, "A Bi-Labeling Based XPath Processing System", . January 2010.
Abstract
We present BLAS, a Bi-LAbeling based XPath processing System. BLAS uses two labeling schemes to speed up query processing: P-labeling for processing consecutive child (or parent) axis traversals, and D-labeling for processing descendant (or ancestor) axis traversals. XML data are stored in labeled form and indexed. Algorithms are presented for translating XPath queries to SQL expressions. BLAS reduces the number of joins in the SQL query translated from a given XPath query and reduces the number of disk accesses required to execute the SQL query compared with the traditional XPath processing using D-labeling alone. We also propose an approximate P-labeling scheme and the corresponding query translation algorithm to handle XML data trees that contain a large number of distinct tag names, and/or are very deep. This extension captures a spectrum of XPath-to-SQL query translation schemes, ranging from existing schemes that do not use P-labels to the one that uses exact P-labels. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the BLAS system.
Date Posted: 19 July 2012
Comments
Chen, Y., Davidson, S., & Zheng, Y., A Bi-Labeling Based XPath Processing System, Information Systems 35, 2010, doi: 10.1016/j.is.2009.05.005