Database Programming Languages [electronic resource] : 9th International Workshop, DBPL 2003, Potsdam, Germany, September 6-8, 2003, Revised Papers /

Invited Contributions -- CQL: A Language for Continuous Queries over Streams and Relations -- XPath Query Processing -- Static Analysis -- Satisfiability of XPath Expressions -- Containment of Relational Queries with Annotation Propagation -- Avoiding Unnecessary Ordering Operations in XPath -- Transactions -- Consistency of Java Transactions -- Integrating Database and Programming Language Constraints -- A Unifying Semantics for Active Databases Using Non-Markovian Theories of Actions -- Modeling Data and Services -- Modelling Dynamic Web Data -- Semantics of Objectified XML Constraints -- M2ORM2: A Model for the Transparent Management of Relationally Persistent Objects -- Novel Applications of XML and XQuery -- Using XQuery for Flat-File Based Scientific Datasets -- A Query Algebra for Fragmented XML Stream Data -- XML Processing and Validation -- Updates and Incremental Validation of XML Documents -- Attribute Grammars for Scalable Query Processing on XML Streams -- A General Framework for Estimating XML Query Cardinality.