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Quilt: An XML Query Language for Heterogeneous Data Sources

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The World Wide Web and Databases (WebDB 2000)

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The World Wide Web promises to transform human society by making virtually all types of information instantly available everywhere. Two prerequisites for this promise to be realized are a universal markup language and a universal query language. The power and flexibility of XML make it the leading candidate for a universal markup language. XML provides a way to label information from diverse data sources including structured and semi-structured documents, relational databases, and object repositories. Several XML-based query languages have been proposed, each oriented toward a specific category of information. Quilt is a new proposal that attempts to unify concepts from several of these query languages, resulting in a new language that exploits the full versatility of XML. The name Quilt suggests both the way in which features from several languages were assembled to make a new query language, and the way in which Quilt queries can combine information from diverse data sources into a query result with a new structure of its own.

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  1. IBM Almaden Research Center, CA 95120, San Jose, USA

    Don Chamberlin

  2. Software AG - USA, 3207 Gibson Road, NC 27703

    Jonathan Robie

  3. INRIA, 78153, Le Chesnay cedex, France

    Daniela Florescu

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  1. Universität Münster, Wirtschaftsinformatik Steinfurter Str.109, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gerhard Goos

  2. Karlsruhe University, Germany

    Juris Hartmanis

  3. Cornell University, NY, USA

    Jan van Leeuwen

  4. Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Dan Suciu

  5. Computer Science and Engineering, University ofWashington, WA 98195-2350, Seattle, USA

    Gottfried Vossen

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Chamberlin, D., Robie, J., Florescu, D. (2001). Quilt: An XML Query Language for Heterogeneous Data Sources. In: Goos, G., Hartmanis, J., van Leeuwen, J., Suciu, D., Vossen, G. (eds) The World Wide Web and Databases. WebDB 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1997. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45271-0_1

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