| Week | Topic | Readings | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/3/00 | Overview of XML | XML in 10 Points; XML Schema requirements Skim: Bray, Paoli, Sperberg-McQueen, XML Spec; Thompson, Beech, Maloney, Mendelsohn, XML Schema Part 1: Structures | Zack |
| 1/10/00 | Christos Faloutsos invited talk | (none) | Christos Faloutsos, CMU |
| 1/17/00 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day; no class | (none) | (none) |
| 1/24/00 | Querying XML | Deutsch, Fernandez,
Florescu, Levy, Suciu: A
Query Language for XML, WWW8; Robie, Lapp, Schach, XQL, W3C QL98 Workshop; Clark, DeRose, eds, XPath Recommendation | Igor Tatarinov |
| 1/31/00 | Presentation of XML | Clark, ed, XSLT | Mike Swift |
| 2/7/00 | Storing XML in Relations | Shanmugasundaram, Tufte, Zhang, He, DeWitt, Naughton: Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities, VLDB 1999; Florescu, Kossmann, A Performance Evaluation of Alternative Mapping Schemes for Storing XML Data in a Relational Database, INRIA Technical Report | Stefan Saroiu |
| 2/14/00 | Semi-structured XML | McHugh, Abiteboul, Goldman, Quass, and Widom: Lore: A Database Management System for Semistructured Data. SIGMOD Record, September 1997 Goldman, McHugh, Widom. From Semistructured Data to XML: Migrating the Lore Data Model and Query Language. WebDB '99 | Qiong Chen |
| 2/21/00 | President's Day; no class | (none) | (none) |
| 2/28/00 | XML data compression | Liefke, Suciu: XMill: an Efficient Compressor for XML Data. SIGMOD 2000. | Steve Swanson |
| 3/6/00 | Typechecking and type inference | Milo, Suciu: Type Inference for Queries on Semistructured Data, PODS 2000. | Rachel Pottinger |