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We present a Nominal Isabelle formalization of an expressive core fragment of XQuery, a W3C standard functional language for querying XML documents. Our formalization focuses on results presented in the literature concerning XQuery’s operational semantics, typechecking, and optimizations. Our core language, called mini-XQuery, omits many complications of XQuery such as ancestor and sibling axes, recursive types and functions, node identity, and unordered processing modes, but does handle distinctive features of XQuery including monadic comprehensions, downward XPath steps and regular expression types. To our knowledge no language with similar features has been mechanically formalized previously. Our formalization is a first step towards a complete formalization of full XQuery.
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Cheney, J., Urban, C. (2011). Mechanizing the Metatheory of mini-XQuery. In: Jouannaud, JP., Shao, Z. (eds) Certified Programs and Proofs. CPP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7086. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25379-9_21
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