On the complexity of XPath containment in the presence of disjunction, DTDs, and variables

XPath is a simple language for navigating an XML-tree and returning a set of answer nodes. The focus in this paper is on the complexity of the containment problem for various fragments of XPath. We restrict attention to the most common XPath expressions which navigate along the child and/or descenda...

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Main Authors: Frank Neven, Thomas Schwentick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Logical Methods in Computer Science e.V. 2006-07-01
Series:Logical Methods in Computer Science
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Online Access:https://lmcs.episciences.org/2243/pdf