This page contains pointers to research papers and technical reports written at various point during the design of XQuery, as well as during the development of Galax. Those articles typically focus on hard technical problems, or important design issues.

XQuery and XML Query Languages

• Growing XQuery. Mary Fernandez and Jérôme Siméon. ECOOP'2007 (European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming).
• XML Query Languages: Experiences and Examplars. Mary Fernandez, Jérôme Siméon, Philip Wadler (editors). Communication to the XML Query W3C Working Group. September 1999.

The XML Algebra, XML Schema, and Static Typing

• The Essence of XML, Philip Wadler, and Jérôme Siméon. ACM Conference on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL'2007). January 2007.
• A semistructured monad for semistructured data. Mary Fernandez, Jerome Simeon, Philip Wadler. ICDT, London, January 2005.
• An Algebra for XML Query. Mary Fernandez, Jerome Simeon, Philip Wadler. FST TCS, Delhi, December 2004.
• An Algebra for XML Query. Mary Fernandez, Jérôme Siméon, and Philip Wadler, draft manuscript. June 2004. (This one was the actual submission to the W3C!)
• A Data Model and Algebra for XML Query Mary Fernandez, Jérôme Siméon, Dan Suciu and Philip Wadler. Draft manuscript. November 1999.
• Subsumption for XML Types. Gabriel M. Kuper and Jérôme Siméon, in International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT'2005), January 2005, London, UK.

Architecture and Optimization

• A Complete and Efficient Algebraic Compiler for XQuery., Christopher Re, Jérôme Siméon, Mary F. Fernández. ICDE 2010.
• Optimizing Sorting and Duplicate Elimination in XQuery Path Expressions, Mary F. Fernández, Jan Hidders, Philippe Michiels, Jérôme Siméon, Roel Vercammen, DEXA 2009, 554-563.
• The Simplest XML Storage Manager Ever, Avinash Vyas, Mary F. Fernández, Jérôme Siméon, XIME-P 2008 Workshop, 37-42.
• Projecting XML Documents, Amélie Marian and Jérôme Siméon. VLDB'2007. Berlin, Germany, September 2007.
• Projecting XML Documents (Full version), Amélie Marian and Jérôme Siméon. Technical Report.