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An extension of data automata that captures XPath

Logic in Computer Science 2015-07-01 v2 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

We define a new kind of automata recognizing properties of data words or data trees and prove that the automata capture all queries definable in Regular XPath. We show that the automata-theoretic approach may be applied to answer decidability and expressibility questions for XPath.

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@article{arxiv.1201.0597,
  title  = {An extension of data automata that captures XPath},
  author = {Mikołaj Bojańczyk and Sławomir Lasota},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.0597},
  year   = {2015}
}
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