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Available XPath evaluators basically follow one of two strategies to evaluate an XPath query on hierarchical XML data: either they evaluate it topdown or they evaluate it bottom-up. In this paper, we present an approach that allows evaluating an XPath query in arbitrary directions, including a mixture of bottom-up and top-down direction. For each location step, it can be decided whether to evaluate it top-down or bottom-up, such that we can start e.g. with a location step of low selectivity and evaluate all child-axis steps top-down at the same time. As our experiments have shown, this approach allows for a very efficient XPath evaluation which is 15 times faster than the JDK1.6 XPath query evaluation (JAXP) and which is several times faster than MonetDB if the file size is ≤ 30 MB or the query to be evaluated contains at least one location step that has a low selectivity. Furthermore, our approach is applicable to most compressed XML formats too, which may prevent swapping when a large XML document does not fit into main memory but its compressed representation does.
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Benter, M., Böttcher, S., Hartel, R. (2011). Mixing Bottom-Up and Top-Down XPath Query Evaluation. In: Eder, J., Bielikova, M., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6909. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23737-9_3
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