Database Programming Languages: 9th International Workshop, DBPL 2003, Potsdam, Germany, September 6-8, 2003. Revised Papers

Arvind Arasu, Shivnath Babu, Jennifer Widom (auth.), Georg Lausen, Dan Suciu (eds.)3540208968, 9783540208969, 9783540246077

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Database Programming Languages, DBPL 2003, held in Potsdam, Germany in September 2003.

The 14 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully selected during two round of reviewing and revision from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on static analysis, transactions, modeling data and services, novel applications of XML and XQuery, and XML processing and validation.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
CQL: A Language for Continuous Queries over Streams and Relations….Pages 1-19
XPath Query Processing….Pages 20-20
Satisfiability of XPath Expressions….Pages 21-36
Containment of Relational Queries with Annotation Propagation….Pages 37-53
Avoiding Unnecessary Ordering Operations in XPath….Pages 54-70
Consistency of Java Transactions….Pages 71-89
Integrating Database and Programming Language Constraints….Pages 90-109
A Unifying Semantics for Active Databases Using Non-Markovian Theories of Actions….Pages 110-129
Modelling Dynamic Web Data….Pages 130-146
Semantics of Objectified XML Constraints….Pages 147-165
M 2 ORM 2 : A Model for the Transparent Management of Relationally Persistent Objects….Pages 166-178
Using XQuery for Flat-File Based Scientific Datasets….Pages 179-194
A Query Algebra for Fragmented XML Stream Data….Pages 195-215
Updates and Incremental Validation of XML Documents….Pages 216-232
Attribute Grammars for Scalable Query Processing on XML Streams….Pages 233-256
A General Framework for Estimating XML Query Cardinality….Pages 257-277
Back Matter….Pages –