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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2012.15.9.1133

XML Type Inheritance Index Hierarchies for Supporting Ancestor-descendant Exploration  

Lee, Jong-Hak (대구가톨릭대학교 IT공학부)
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Journal of Korea Multimedia Society / v.15, no.9, 2012 , pp. 1133-1148 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a hierarchical structuring method for the multidimensional type inheritance indices (MD-TIXs) that support the processing of XML queries in XML databases. MD-TIX uses a multidimensional index structure for efficiently supporting ancestor-descendant explorations that involve both nested element and type inheritance hierarchies. However, In the case of a long Xpath, the building and maintenance of MD-TIX are very difficult because of index entry construction problem. So, we propose a type inheritance index hierarchy method for solving this difficulty. We first construct base indices that support direct relationship explorations between adjacent two types on a given Xpath, and then, based on these base indices, we construct hierarchically the derived indices that support indirect relationship explorations between any two types of Xpath until constructing one target index for supporting the full Xpath. And we also present an algorithm that efficiently constructs a partial index hierarchy for supporting given a set of sub-pathes explorations.
Keywords
XML Databases; XML Schema; XML Query Processing; XML Index;
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