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XPath/XQuery

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Synonyms

W3C XML path language; W3C XML query language

Glossary

URI:

Universal Resource Identifier

W3C:

The World Wide Web Consortium

XLink:

A standard to denote links between XML documents

XML:

Extensible Mark-up Language

XPath:

XML Path Language

XPointer:

An XML notation to denote a link to a specific subset of an XML document

XQuery:

XML Query Language

XSL:

The Extensible Stylesheet Language

Definition

XPath (XML path language) and XQuery (XML query language) are query languages defined by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) for querying XML documents. XPath is a language based on path expressions and allows the selection of parts of a given XML document. In addition it also allows some minor computations resulting in values such as strings, numbers, or booleans. The semantics of the language is based on a representation of the information content of an XML document as an ordered tree. An XPath expression consists usually of a series of steps that each navigate through this tree in...

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Recommended Reading

  • Brundage M (2004) XQuery: the XML query language. Pearson Higher Education, Boston

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  • Hidders J, Paredaens J, Vercammen R, Demeyer S (2004) A light but formal introduction to XQuery. In: Proceedings of the second international XML database symposium (XSym 2004), Toronto. LNCS 2186. Springer, pp 5–20

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  • Katz H, Chamberlin D, Kay M, Wadler P, Draper D (2003) XQuery from the experts: a guide to the W3C XML query language. Addison-Wesley Longman, Boston

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Jan Hidders

  2. Department of Math and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Jan Paredaens

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  1. Jan Hidders
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Institute for Web Science and Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Thomas Gottron

  2. YU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Stefan Schlobach

  3. Institute for Web Science and Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Steffen Staab

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Hidders, J., Paredaens, J. (2018). XPath/XQuery. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_135

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