Querying XML data : as you shape it

• Main Authors: Dyreson, Curtis E., Bhowmick, Sourav S.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84309; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13001
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A limitation of XQuery is that a programmer has to be familiar with the shape of the data to query it effectively. And if that shape changes, or if the shape is other than what the programmer expects, the query may fail. One way to avoid this limitation is to transform the data into a desired shape....