Re: Two examples of semi structured data.

From: Jan Hidders <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:47:38 GMT
Message-ID: <pan.2004.08.21.04.49.26.705231@REMOVETHIS.pandora.be>

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:00:40 +0200, mAsterdam wrote:

> 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.

Could you be a bit more specific, Danny?

Jan Hidders

Received on Fri Aug 20 2004 - 23:47:38 CDT