Paper Info
Title
Xplainer: Visual Explanations Of Xpath Queries
Abstract
The popularity of XML has motivated the development of novel XML processing tools many of which embed the XPath language for XML querying, transformation, constraint specification, etc. XPath developers (as well as less technical users) have access to commercial tools to help them use the language effectively. Example tools include debuggers that return the result of XPath subexpressions visualized in the context of the input XML document.This paper introduces XPlainer a language that provides explanations of why XPath expressions return a specific answer An explanation returns precisely the nodes in the input XML document that contribute to the answer We provide a complete formalization for explanation queries based on the semantics of XPath. This enables the use of XPath engines for the evaluation of explanation queries.We describe a tool that uses XPlainer queries to provide visual explanations. The XPlainer-Eclipse tool is built on an extensible development environment that includes editors for visualizing both XML documents and XPath expressions as trees together with the explanation of the answers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ICDE.2007.367909
2007 IEEE 23RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA ENGINEERING, VOLS 1-3
Keywords
Field
DocType
debugging,displays,xml,development environment,query languages,visualization,xml document,oxygen,computer languages,application software,engines,data visualisation,web services
Programming language,Information retrieval,XML Schema (W3C),Computer science,XML database,Schematron,XML schema,XPath,Simple API for XML,XSLT,XPath 2.0,Database
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1084-4627
7
0.64
References 
Authors
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mariano P. Consens11203387.78
John W. S. Liu281.36
Flavio Rizzolo324017.83