XML and Databases - COMP9317


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9317
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: COMP9024 or enrolment in MIT program 8684 or GradCert program 7344.
	Equivalent: COMP4317, COMP4341
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Topics: XML Parsing (Event-Driven vs. DOM). Memory models (trees, DAGs, ponter-less). Types: DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG. Implementation: Tree Automata (top-down vs. bottom-up, nondet. vs. det., complexity, succinctness). Selecting Nodes: XPath and Pattern Matching (automata vs. structural/twig joins). XML Transformations and Type Checking. Data Binding (to a DB/PL and back). Query Languages: XQuery. Access Control for XML. Optimisation Issues: Statistics, Indexes, Keys for XML.