摘要 |
System and method for providing compound indexing for XML documents are described. One embodiment is a system comprising a database for storing a document comprising hierarchical, semi-structured data; a database engine for performing operations on and in connection with data stored in the database; and an index definition document ("IDD") for defining an index for the document; wherein the database engine applies the IDD to the document to generate a set of index keys for the document.
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