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Lecture 15: Querying XML

Lecture 15: Querying XML. Friday, October 27, 2000. An Example of XML Data. < bib > < book > < publisher > Addison-Wesley </ publisher > < author > Serge Abiteboul </ author > < author > < first-name > Rick </ first-name >

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Lecture 15: Querying XML

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  1. Lecture 15: Querying XML Friday, October 27, 2000

  2. An Example of XML Data <bib> <book> <publisher> Addison-Wesley </publisher> <author> Serge Abiteboul </author> <author> <first-name> Rick </first-name> <last-name> Hull </last-name> <author> Victor Vianu </author> <title> Foundations of Databases </title> <year> 1995 </year> </book> <book price=“55”> <publisher> Freeman </publisher> <author> Jeffrey D. Ullman </author> <title> Principles of Database and Knowledge Base Systems </title> <year> 1998 </year> </book> </bib>

  3. XPath • Syntax for XML document navigation and node selection • A recommendation of the W3C (i.e. a standard) • Building block for other W3C standards: • XSL Transformations (XSLT) • XML Link (XLink) • XML Pointer (XPointer)

  4. XPath /bib/book/year Result: <year> 1995 </year> <year> 1998 </year> /bib/paper/year Result: empty (there were no papers)

  5. XPath //author Result:<author> Serge Abiteboul </author> <author> <first-name> Rick </first-name> <last-name> Hull </last-name> </author> <author> Victor Vianu </author> <author> Jeffrey D. Ullman </author> /bib//first-name Result: <first-name> Rick </first-name>

  6. XPath /bib/book/author/text() Result: Serge Abiteboul Jeffrey D. Ullman Rick Hull doesn’t appear because he has firstname, lastname

  7. XPath //author/* Result: <first-name> Rick </first-name> <last-name> Hull </last-name> * Matches any element

  8. XPath /bib/book/@price Result: “55” @price means that price is has to be an attribute

  9. XPath /bib/book/author[firstname] Result: <author> <first-name> Rick </first-name> <last-name> Hull </last-name> </author>

  10. XPath /bib/book[@price < “60”] /bib/book[author/@age < “25”] /bib/book[author/text()]

  11. XPath Expressions bib matches a bib element * matches any element / matches the root element /bib matches a bib element under root bib/paper matches a paper in bib bib//paper matches a paper in bib, at any depth //paper matches a paper at any depth paper|book matches a paper or a book @price matches a price attribute bib/book/@price matches price attribute in book, in bib bib/book/[@price<“55”]/author/lastname matches…

  12. Query Language • First research query language: XML-QL (1998) • The W3C started a WG for a standard XML query language … still working • We will see here Quilt that borrows from: • XML-QL • Xpath • SQL

  13. Quilt List all titles of books published by Morgan Kaufmann in 1998: FOR $b IN document(“bib.xml”)/book WHERE $b/publisher = “Morgan Kaufmann” AND $b/year = “1998” RETURN $b/title

  14. Quilt • Find all names with a firstname and lastname; group them in a <name> FOR $a IN document(“bib.xml”)//author, $f IN $a/firstName, $l IN $a/lastName RETURN <name> <fn> $f </fn> <ln> $l </ln> </name>

  15. Quilt • Retrieve the titles of the books written by Laing before 1967, together with their reviews. FOR $b in document(“bib.xml”)//book[@year<1967], $r in document(“reviews.xml”)//review WHERE $b/authors/lastname=“Laing” and $b/@ISBN=$r/@ISBN RETURN <resultBook ISBN=$b/@ISBN> <title> $b/title/text() </title>, $r </resultBook>

  16. Quilt • Retrieve the titles of the books written by Laing before 1967 together with their reviews. FOR $b in document(“input.xml”)//book[@year<1967] LET $R = document(“input.xml”)//review[@isbn=$b/@isbn] WHERE $b/authors/lastname=“Laing” RETURN <resultBook ISBN=$b/@ISBN> <resultTitle> $t </resultTitle> <bookReviews> $R </bookReviews> </resultBook>

  17. QUILT • List all authors that published both in 1998 and 1999 FOR $a IN distinct(document(“bib.xml”)/book/author, WHERE contains(document(“bib.xml”)/book[year=1998]/author, $a) AND contains(document(“bib.xml”)/book[year=1999]/author, $a) RETURN $a

  18. XSL • Aka XSLT • A recommendation of the W3C (standard) • Initial goal: translate XML to HTML • Became: translate XML to XML • HTML is just a particular case

  19. Retrieve all book titles: <xsl:template> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:templatematch = “/bib/*/title”> <result> <xsl:value-of/> </result> </xsl:template> XSL Templates and Rules • query = collection of template rules • template rule = match pattern + template

  20. Flow Control in XSL <xsl:template> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:templatematch=“a”> <A><xsl:apply-templates/></A> </xsl:template> <xsl:templatematch=“b”> <B><xsl:apply-templates/></B> </xsl:template> <xsl:templatematch=“c”> <C><xsl:value-of/></C> </xsl:template>

  21. <a> <e> <b> <c> 1 </c> <c> 2 </c> </b> <a> <c> 3 </c> </a> </e> <c> 4 </c> </a> <A> <B> <C> 1 </C> <C> 2 </C> </B> <A> <C> 3 </C> </A> <C> 4 </C> </A>

  22. <xsl:template> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:templatematch=“a”> <A><xsl:apply-templates/></A> <A><xsl:apply-templates/></A> </xsl:template> XSLT

  23. XSLT • What is the output on: <a> <a> <a> </a> </a> </a> ?

  24. Answer:

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