Using Reflection for Querying XML Documents

Kirchberg, M., Riaz-ud-Din, F., Schewe, K.-D. and Tretiakov, A.

XML-based databases have become a major area of interest in database research. Abstractly speaking they can be considered as a resurrection of complexvalue databases using constructors for records, lists, unions plus optionality and references. XQuery has become the standard query language for XML. In this paper an implementation of XQuery based on linguistic reection is proposed. That is, XQuery is translated into a query algebra for rational tree types based on simple operations and structural recursion for lists. The major purpose of using reection is to expand path expressions in a type-safe way.

Cite as: Kirchberg, M., Riaz-ud-Din, F., Schewe, K.-D. and Tretiakov, A. (2006). Using Reflection for Querying XML Documents. In Proc. Seventeenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC2006), Hobart, Australia. CRPIT, 49. Dobbie, G. and Bailey, J., Eds. ACS. 119-128.

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