Reviews for paper A SQL:1999 Code Generator for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler, submitted to SIGMOD 2007.
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The proposal is to demonstrate a code generator that translates XQuery into SQL 1999 for supporting XML queries in a relational database system. The demo is based on sound principles, and is quite likely to be of interest to many SIGMOD participants. I do have a concern, however, that there is not much to demonstrate; the details of the work may be better suited for an article or technical report.
It would be useful to show several examples of XQueries and their SQL counterparts.
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Very interesting technology, and it would be really interesting to see this system in action. The ability to optimize XML using existing SQL optimizers is intriguing, and it seems like a plausible approach.
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The pathfinder query system translates XQuery expressions into SQL statement to be executed on top of a relational representation of the XML data. While the underlying research contributions are sound, it is unclear what the added-value contributions of the demo are.
The underlying work seems strong, but the demonstration description does not convince me of the need for a visualization interface to pathfinder.