Modeling, encoding and querying multi-structured documents

• Published in: Information processing & management Vol. 48; no. 5; pp. 931 - 955
• Main Authors: Portier, Pierre-Édouard, Chatti, Noureddine, Calabretto, Sylvie, Egyed-Zsigmond, Elöd, Pinon, Jean-Marie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2012; Elsevier; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Computer Science; Data processing; Digital; Document and Text Processing; Document management; Documents; Electronic documents; Encoding; Exact sciences and technology; Extensible Markup Language; Formalism; Information and communication sciences; Information processing and retrieval; Information retrieval; Information retrieval. Man machine relationship; Information science. Documentation; Management; Multi-structured document; Multi-structured document querying; MultiX; Research process. Evaluation; Sciences and techniques of general use; Structures; Studies; Tasks; XML; XQuery; Multi-structured document; XML; XQuery; MultiX; Multi-structured document querying; Multix

The issue of multi-structured documents became prominent with the emergence of the digital Humanities field of practices. Many distinct structures may be defined simultaneously on the same original content for matching different documentary tasks. For example, a document may have both a structure fo...