With the language standardization process approaching its end, the time has come to consider the efforts done so far, and most importantly, to envision the future. The purpose of the XIME-P workshop is to gather researchers from academia and industry around the topic of XQuery implementation, experience, and perspectives.

XQuery implementation

We believe that discussing, comparing, and envisioning architectures for XQuery implementation can be extremely useful for the SIGMOD and PODS community.
Thus,  the XIME-P workshop intends to offer a venue for implementation overview papers, which may be more difficult to publish in a standard conference, while very valuable in our view. We welcome system overview contributions from the industry and academia,  characterizing all aspects of the system (storage, query execution model, query optimization paradigm if any, supported language features etc.) Disseminating architectural knowledge and open issues will contribute to building a global view of what is currently being done in the field of XQuery processing; the progress in language standardization now allows  us to compare the usefullness of various approaches, pinpoint the technical aspects still unsolved, and envision future (and better) architectures.

XQuery application and experience

To understand the issues involved in implementing XQuery, and the purpose of the various language features, early feedback from existing XQuery implementation would be very useful. Going beyond simple toy queries, we welcome contributions describing XQuery usage, in any possible application context. We are interested in exposing the technical advantage of using XML and XQuery in the considered application, and in users' experience regarding: language features, volume and nature of data managed, types of queries used, query processing performance, integration with the rest of the information system etc.

XQuery perspectives

While many have started implementing or using XQuery, the language's future is ahead of us. We aim at considering future applications, innovative and successful architectures, potential performance problems, and promissing avenues for future research. We will discuss the potential influence of a very complex standard on academic research, typically focused on narrower and somehow more limited problems; on industrial implementations, driven by customers' needs, and on open-source efforts. How to reconcile complexity and ease of use ? How to optimize the implementation of some language features, without hurting the rest ? Are there interesting, commonly-recognized language subsets ? Which will be the "XQuery success stories" in the next 5 years ?

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