XML-Query First Project Review
by M.Marchiori, M.Fernandez, P.Cotton, P.Fankhauser

Table of contents

• Presenters
• Overview
• XML-Query Organization
• Mailing Lists
• Meetings
• Timeline
• Reasons
• XML-Query Project
• XML-Query so far
• External Relationships
• Documentation
• XML-Query Requirements
• Requirements
• Use Cases
• Use Cases: Example
• Use Case Tree: DTD
• Use Case TREE: Sample Data
• Use Case TREE
• Use Cases
• XML-Query Data Model & Algebra
• XML Query Components
• XML Query Data Model
• XML Query Data Model
• Constructors
• Accessors
• XML Query Algebra
• Expressions
• Types
• Data
• Types
• Projection (a.k.a. Navigation)
• Iteration
• Selection
• More data
• Join
• Restructuring
• Other Features
• Some Important Open Issues
• XML-Query Syntax & Query vs Schema
• XML-Query Syntax(es) sketch proposals
• How do they look like?
• Relationship XML-Query/XML-Schema
• Query/Schema Interaction
• Future Joint Work
• What could we do better
• Relationship XML-Query/XSL
• Commonalities
• Differences
• XML-Query/XSLT Taskforce
• Mapping XPath to XML Query Algebra
• (XML Schema) type based matching in XPath
• Issues for future collaboration
• End