Querying xml documents with Xpath/Xquery in presence of Xlink hy-perlinks
Lule Ahmedi, Mentor Arifaj · 2008
Abstract: Nowadays XML documents are prezented into the Web more than ever. Using XLink hyperlinks, a docu-ment can refer different portions of information in different documents into the Web. With XLink hyperlinks the XML documents in the Web can be investigated from querying point of view not just while browsing these docu-ments. There are few implementations regarding XLink recommendation and just two implementations regarding quering XML documents using XPath/XQuery expressions in presence of XLink hyperlinks. On the other side XPath/XQuery has many implementations and wide support from IT leaders in the world. In this paper it is shown another way of using XPath/XQuery to query XML documents in presence of hyperlinks. The paper shows a model and its implementation. To materialize the new model it is used Saxon-B processor, with which was created an ex-tention named BOTA. Prototype BOTA can be used in different web applications and easly can be integrated into Web Services in order to select something more narrow that the whole XML document. The prototype Bota espe-cially can be used in applications with RSS and Atom.