Query Languages and Tools
for XML Documents and Databases

Sonali Sheth
John A. Miller

Computer Science Department
415 GSRC
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-7404
jam+cs-uga.edu

• Introduction
• Universal Data Exchange Language
• Semistructured Nature of Web Information
• Prototype Implementation of QT4XML
  • Converting XML to Database Schema
  • Prototype Architecture
    • Database
    • DTD to Java Class
    • XML to Java Object
    • Visual Query Builder
    • Fetching query results
  • Visual Query Builder
    • Pattern Matching in XML Documents
    • Pattern Matching using Regular Expressions
    • Complex Query
    • Recursive DTD Query
  • Joining/Linking Documents
• Comparison of Query Languages for XML
  • XML-QL
  • XQL
  • Lorel
  • Analysis
  • Other XML Query Languages
  • Query Languages for Semistructured data
• Conclusions and Future Work
• References
• Appendix: QT4XML Grammar
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