Re: Two examples of semi structured data.

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:00:40 +0200
Message-ID: <4126829c$0$42417$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Jan Hidders wrote:

> The common theme is here that you would like to be able to query and
> manipulate data that although it has structure in some way this structure
> is not (or only partially) made explicit.
>
> A nice old paper (IMO) that discusses the main issues can be found here:
>
> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/558/http:zSzzSzwww-db.stanford.eduzSzpubzSzpaperszSzicdt97.semistructured.pdf/abiteboul97querying.pdf

To get the goat, the wolve and the cabbage across one has to go back and forth - there is no escape in that. My impression of this paper: they sacrifice the goat (and maybe the cabbage if the wolve is smart) by putting all three of them in one boat. Received on Fri Aug 20 2004 - 18:00:40 CDT