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The design of kinisis

Euclid Keramopoulos, Konstantinos Tsekos, Achilleas Pliakas, Ignatios Deligiannis

Abstract

XQuery is the standard query language for semistructured data and especially for XML documents. Based on XQuery, we designed and developed KINISIS, a graphical XQuery language. In KINISIS we use metaphors, extracted from the road traffic act, in order to define queries. In this paper we present the design of KINISIS, the metaphors used, the implementation of KINISIS and the results of a controlled experiment where we assess the usability of KINISIS against XQuery.

Keywords

Semistructured Data, Graphical Xque

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DOI: 10.18780/jiim.v1i2.3053

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