BaseX – Processing and Visualizing large XML Instances

As XML has proven to be a successful standardized format for textual data exchange, it is increasingly used to represent large text corpora, stretching over several gigabytes. Yet, most XML processors are still specialized on storing and querying pretty small XML documents. In the scope of our research, we analyze the storage, query, update, and visualization of large XML instances. BaseX is the mature Open Source offspring of our research. It features compact storage structures, an efficient and highly W3 conformant XPath/XQuery processor and a graphical user interface, facilitating visual access to large XML documents.

News & Downloads

Please visit our project homepage basex.org for more information.

Joint Work

• We are currently cooperating with the WG Human-Computer Interaction. In the near future, BaseX will serve as database backend for the library catalog MedioVis. Realtime access will be given to metadata of ~2 Mio. library titles of the University of Konstanz.
• DeepFS, the BaseX File System, bridges the gap between file systems and databases. Here, we are currently cooperating with the Distributed Systems Group and the Idefix project. Idefix, a block-oriented persistent XML storage layer, will serve as a backend for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler. This may open the door to query data stored in a file system with similar design.

Contact

• Your personal contacts: Christian Grün, Alexander Holupirek, and Marc H. Scholl