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Reasoning about keys for XML

delete2003-12-01
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Peter Buneman
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Susan B. Davidson
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Wenfei Fan
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Carmem S. Hara
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Wang-Chiew Tan
DOI:10.1016/S0306-4379(03)00028-0delete
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We study absolute and relative keys for XML, and investigate their associated decision problems. We argue that these keys are important to many forms of hierarchically structured data including XML documents. In contrast to other proposals of keys for XML, we show that these keys are always (finitely) satisfiable, and their (finite) implication problem is finitely axiomatizable. Furthermore, we provide a polynomial time algorithm for determining (finite) implication in the size of keys. Our results also demonstrate, among other things, that the analysis of XML keys is far more intricate than its relational counterpart. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
XML keys
axiomatization
logical implication
satisfiability
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Enterprise Information Systems cover
Enterprise Information Systems
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