An approach to XML Path retrieval

Abstract

Both of XML document and user's query are represented by the set of paths from the root node to leaf nodes. So the context and content information contained in the corresponding path is a vital important clue to research XML retrieval. This paper presents an approach, NPathSim, for measuring similarity between two paths. XML Path retrieval was performed to evaluate the performance of NPathSim. The experiments show that our path retrieval method can achieve better performance than other methods.