Recently, a large number of XML documents are available on the Internet. This trend motivated many researchers to analyze them multi-dimensionally in the same way as relational data. In this paper, we propose a new framework for multidimensional analysis of XML documents, which we call XML-OLAP. We base XML-OLAP on XML warehouses where every fact data as well as dimension data are stored as XML...

Active XML (AXML) is an extension of XML to exploit the powerful computation ability of peer-to-peer network and Web services technologies. AXML is considered a distributed XML DBMS which extends the capability of XML by embedding intensional XML data inside XML documents. The management of intensional XML and XML data together in XML documents raises issues such as representation for intension...