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Title: | Optimizing Schema Languages for XML: Numerical Constraints and Interleaving | Authors: | GELADE, Wouter MARTENS, Wim NEVEN, Frank |
Issue Date: | 2009 | Source: | SIAM Journal on Computing, 38(5). p. 2021-2043 | Abstract: | The presence of a schema offers many advantages in processing, translating, querying, and storage of XML data. Basic decision problems such as equivalence, inclusion, and nonemptiness of intersection of schemas form the basic building blocks for schema optimization and integration, and algorithms for static analysis of transformations. It is thereby paramount to establish the exact complexity of these problems. Most common schema languages for XML can be adequately modeled by some kind of grammar with regular expressions at right-hand sides. In this paper, we observe that, apart from the usual regular operators of union, concatenation, and Kleene-star, schema languages also allow numerical occurrence constraints and interleaving operators. Although the expressiveness of these operators remains within the regular languages, the presence or absence of these operators has a significant impact on the complexity of the basic decision problems. We present a complete overview of the complexity of the basic decision problems for DTDs, XSDs, and Relax NG with regular expressions incorporating numerical occurrence constraints and interleaving. We also discuss chain regular expressions and the complexity of the schema simplification problem incorporating the new operators. | Keywords: | XML schema languages; complexity; optimization; regular expressions;XML schema languages; complexity; optimization; regular expressions | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/9220 | ISSN: | 0097-5397 | e-ISSN: | 1095-7111 | DOI: | 10.1137/070697367 | ISI #: | 000264353000015 | Rights: | Copyright © by SIAM. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2010 |
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