An efficient encoding and labeling scheme for dynamic XML data

It is important to process the updates when nodes are inserted into or deleted from the XML tree. However, all the existing labeling schemes have high update cost. In this paper, we innovatively introduce a concept of Forbidden Code Segment (FCS), and then propose a novel and efficient encoding approach, called Extended Lexicographical Order encoding based on Forbidden Code Segment (FCS-ELO Encoding), whose codes are more compact than CDBS and QED codes. The most important characteristic is that our FCS-ELO labeling scheme can gracefully handle arbitrary update patterns and completely avoid re-labeling in XML updates, which is not at the sacrifice of query performance. We deliver the detailed theoretic analyses and experiments to show that, the proposed labeling scheme is superior to all the existing dynamic labeling schemes to process updates in terms of the incremental label size and the time for updating.