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Atzeni, Paolo, Mecca, Giansalvatore·1997·Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
DOI 10.1145/263661.263678
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The paper develops EDITOR, a language for manipulating semi-structured documents, such as the ones typically available on the Web. EDITOR programs allow to search and restructure a document. They are based on two simple ideas, taken from text editors: Search” instructions are used to select regions of interest in a document, and “cut & paste” to restructure them. We study the expressive power and the complexity of these programs. We show that they are computationally complete, in the sense that any computable document restructuring can be expressed in EDITOR. We also study the complexity of a safe subclass of programs, showing that it captures exactly the class of polynomial-time restructurings. The language has been implemented in Java, and is used in the ARANEUS project to build database views over Web sites.

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Authors
Atzeni, P., & Mecca, G.
Venue
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
1997-05
Pages
144-153
DOI
10.1145/263661.263678
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182
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15.83
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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