Visual querying and exploration of large answers in XMLl databases with X/sup 2/: a demonstration
Holger Meuss, Klaus U. Schulz, François Bry · 2005
This paper describes (eXploring XML data), a system for efficiently querying XML data and visually exploring answer sets, with a special focus on the novel user interface for interaction with the query result. The process of querying XML documents is performed interactively and in a completely graphical manner. Special attention was paid to simplicity of the user interface: In a first step the user submits a query to the system and gets the result presented in the form of a Complete Answer Aggregate (CAA). CAAs visually (re)present the answer space in a compact form and thus provide a good overview over the set of all answers. They offer a rich variety of presentation modes and exploration techniques which are used in the second step to interactively explore the answer space.