XQL Query Processing Using XML Materialized Views
Su-Hui Kim, Chan-Ho Mun, Hyeon-Cheol Gang, Sang-Gu Seo · The KIPS Transactions PartD · 2001
Recently, much research on XML query processing considering the structural characteristics of XML documents is conducted, focusing primarily on the development and/or extension of XML query languages and on query optimization for effective retrieval of XML documents. In the XML repository, the XML views derived from the underlying XML documents could be stored materialized for effective retrieval of XML documents, and could be capitalized on for XML query processing In this paper, assuming that the XML views defined in XQL are materialized in the repository, we investigate XQL query processing that capitalizes on them. We describe the storage structure of the XML repository which supports the materialized views, and propose an algorithm that determines whether the given XQL query can be processed with the relevant materialized view adn accordingly transforms the original query into one against it.