Paper Info
Title
Design and implementation of a graphical interface to XQuery
Abstract
As the use of XML is rapidly growing, a growing number of users without programming skills will need to query XML data. Although designed to be easily understood by humans, XQuery, the XML standard query language, has the typical syntax of programming languages, which most users dislike. In this paper we describe a graphical language (XQBE) inspired by "Query By Example" (QBE), a popular relational query language used by MS Access. XQBE covers a significant subset of XQuery and is supported by a prototype enabling the formulation of queries on a graphical interface and their translation into XQuery, thus providing non-trivial querying capabilities to a wide spectrum of users. Simple queries are easily represented in XQBE, but many "complex" queries allow as well for an intuitive graphical representation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1145/952532.952759
SAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
ms access,graphical interface,simple query,programming language,xml data,popular relational query language,intuitive graphical representation,xml standard query language,programming skill,graphical language,search engine,spectrum,query by example,information retrieval,natural language,query language
Query optimization,Web search query,RDF query language,Query language,Programming language,Information retrieval,Computer science,Data control language,Web query classification,Query by Example,XQuery
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-624-2
16
0.75
References 
Authors
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Enrico Augurusa1181.14
Daniele Braga284447.17
Alessandro Campi335730.08
Stefano Ceri467721657.41