• Peter Buneman, Semistructured Data, Proc. of the Sixteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, May 12-14, 1997, Tucson, Arizona
• Serge Abiteboul, Querying Semistructured Data, ICDT '97: 6th Intl. Conference on Database Theory, Delphi, Greece, January 8-10, 1997, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1186, Springer, 1997

Tuesday, March 14: XML and DTD's

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XML in 10 Points, 1999.
• Jon Bosak and Tim Bray, XML and the Second-Generation Web, Scientific American, May, 1999.
• Tim Bray, Introduction to the Annotated W3C XML Specification, W3C Recommendation, February 10, 1998.
• Charles F. Goldfarb and Paul Prescod, "The XML Handbook", Second Edition, Prentice-Hall PTR, 2000. (Or any other recent XML book.)

Friday, March 17: XML Query Language Overview

• W3C, XML Query Requirements, Working Draft, January 31, 2000.
• Dave Maier, Database Desiderata for an XML Query Language, Presented at QL '98: Query For XML Workshop Position Papers, Boston, December, 1998.
• Dallan Quass, Ten Features Necessary for an XML Query Language, Presented at QL '98: Query For XML Workshop Position Papers, Boston, December, 1998.
• Adam Bosworth (editor), Position Paper for the W3C query language, Presented at QL '98: Query For XML Workshop Position Papers, Boston, December, 1998.
• P. Cotton, D. Fallside and A. Malhotra, Position paper for the W3C Query Languages Workshop, Presented at QL '98: Query For XML Workshop Position Papers, Boston, December, 1998.
• R. Denenberg, The Library Perspective Presented at QL '98: Query For XML Workshop Position Papers, Boston, December, 1998.
• G. Mecca, P. Merialdo, P. Atzeni Do we really need a new query language for XML? Presented at QL '98: Query For XML Workshop Position Papers, Boston, December, 1998.
• L. Seligman and A. Rosenthal, XML Query Language Requirements of Large, Heterogeneous Organizations Presented at QL '98: Query For XML Workshop Position Papers, Boston, December, 1998.

• ... plus other position papers from QL '98, The W3C Workshop for Querying XML

Tuesday, March 21: Query Language Case Study: XML-QL

• A. Deutsch, M. Fernandez, D. Florescu, A. Levy, D. Suciu, A Query Language for XML, In Proc. of the Eighth Intl. World Wide Web Conference (WWW8), 1999.
• M. Fernandez, J. Simeon, P. Wadler (editors), XML Query Languages: Experiences and Exemplars, (XML-QL parts only), Communication to the XML Query W3C Working Group, September 1999.
• User guide and interpreter for XML-QL. Located here.

Friday, March 24: Query Language Case Study: Lorel

• Abiteboul et. al., The Lorel Query Language for Semistructured Data, Intl. Journal on Digital Libraries, 1(1):68-88, April 1997.
• M. Fernandez, J. Simeon, P. Wadler (editors), XML Query Languages: Experiences and Exemplars, (Lorel parts only), Communication to the XML Query W3C Working Group, September 1999.
• User guide and interpreter for Lorel. Located here.

Tuesday, March 28: Query Language Case Study: XSL/XQL

• W3C XSL Working Group, Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), Working Draft, January 12, 2000.
• M. Fernandez, J. Simeon, P. Wadler (editors), XML Query Languages: Experiences and Exemplars, (XQL parts only), Communication to the XML Query W3C Working Group, September 1999.
• J. Robie, J. Lapp, D. Schach, XML Query Language (XQL), Presented at QL '98: Query For XML Workshop Position Papers, Boston, December, 1998.
• D. Schach, J. Lapp, J. Robie, Querying and Transforming XML, Presented at QL '98: Query For XML Workshop Position Papers, Boston, December, 1998.
• Charles F. Goldfarb and Paul Prescod, "The XML Handbook", Second Edition, Prentice-Hall PTR, 2000. (Or any other recent XML book that discusses XSL.)

Friday, March 31: Efficient Storage of XML Data

• A. Deutsch, M. Fernandez and D. Suciu, Storing Semistructured Data with STORED, In Proc. ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data, June 1-3, 1999, Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• H. Liefke and D. Suciu, XMILL: An Efficient Compressor for XML Data, In Proc. ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data, May, 2000, Dallas, Texas, USA. To Appear.

Tuesday, April 4: Indexing

• J. McHugh et. al., Indexing Semi-structured Data, Technical Report, Stanford University, January, 1998.
• Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates and Gaston H. Gonnet, Fast text searching for regular expressions or automaton searching on tries, In the Journal of the ACM, Volume 43 , Issue 6 (1996), pp. 915-936.

Friday, April 7: Query Optimization I

• H. Liefke, Horizontal Query Optimization on Ordered Semistructured Data, In the ACM SIGMOD Workshop on The Web and Databases (WebDB'99), June 3-4, 1999, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Y. Papkonstantinou and V. Vassalos, Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data, In Proc. ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data, June 1-3, 1999, Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Tuesday, April 11: Query Optimization II

• L. Bright and L. Raschid and V. Zadorozhny and T. Zhan, Learning Response Times for Web Sources: A Comparison of a Web Prediction Tool (WebPT) and a Neural Network, In Proc. of the Fourth IFCIS Intl. Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2-4, 1999.
• G. Mihaila, L. Raschid and A. Tomasic, Equal Time for Data on the Internet with WebSemantics, In Advances in Database Technology - EDBT'98, 6th Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology, Valencia, Spain, March 23-27, 1998, Proc.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1377, Springer, 1998.

Friday, April 14: Dynamic Query Processing

• R. Avnur and J. Hellerstein, Continuous Query Optimization, In Proc. ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data, May, 2000, Dallas, Texas, USA. To Appear.
• J. Chen, D. DeWitt, F. Tian and Y. Wang, NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases, In Proc. ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data, May, 2000, Dallas, Texas, USA. To Appear.