Extensible Node Numbering Scheme for Updating XML Documents

There have been many research efforts which find efficiently all occurrences of the structural relationships between the nodes in the XML document tree for processing a XML query. Most of them use the region numbering which is based on positions of the nodes. Hut The position-based node numbering schemes require update of many node numbers in the XML document li the XML nodes are inserted frequently in the same position. In this paper, we propose ENN(extensible node numbering) scheme using the bucket number which is represented with the variable-length string for decreasing the number of the node numbers which is updated. We also present an performance analysis by comparing ENN method with TP(extended preorder) method.