Querying XML
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Intro
- Not as mature as querying relational databases
- No underlying algebra
- XPath : Path expressions and conditions
- XSLT : XPath + Transformations, output processing
- XQuery : XPath + full featured query language
- XLink, XPointer : Use XPath as a component
XPath
- Think of XML as a tree
- Expressions in XPath as navigations down/across the tree with conditions