The presentation outline is here. The goal was to make the relationship between semistructred data and XML, de-stress the XML, focus on the graph structure used to represent the data, the path expressions to query it, and mention the optimization techniques in this framework.
Browse the lore-5.0 release from standford.edu. Includes examples of files under db_files, that can be loaded into a lore Database - both .OEM (Object Exchange Model) and native .XML.

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Wed Feb 20 2002
Mon 2/18/2001
The broad topic is query optimization for XML query processing. This will draw on James Whittaker's links posted at cs565. Readings

R. Goldman and J. Widom. Interactive Query and Search in Semistructured Databases. . Proceedings of the First International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB '98), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1590, pages 52-62, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, March 1998. (PostScript) (Pdf)

J. McHugh and J. Widom. Query Optimization for Semistructured Data. Technical Report, November 1997. (PostScript) (Pdf)

DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pages 436-445, Athens, Greece, August 1997. (PostScript) (Pdf). Extended Version (PostScript) (Pdf)
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