Capturing and Querying Multiple Aspects of Semistructured Data
Curtis Dyreson, Michael H. Böhlen, Christian S. Jensen · 1999
Motivated to a large extentby the substantial and growing prominence of the World-Wide Web and the potential benefits that may be obtained by applying database concepts and techniques to web data management, new data models and query languages have emerged that contend with the semistructured nature of web data. These models organize data in graphs. The nodes in a graph denote objects or values, and each edge is labeled with a single word or phrase. Nodes are described by the labels of the paths that lead to them, and these descriptions serve as the basis for querying. This paper