XPath Node Selection over Grammar-Compressed Trees

XML document markup is highly repetitive and therefore well compressible using grammar-based compression. Downward, navigational XPath can be executed over grammar-compressed trees in PTIME: the query is translated into an automaton which is executed in one pass over the grammar. This result is well...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sebastian Maneth, Tom Sebastian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2013-11-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.5573v1