Araneus in the Era of XML

this paper, we discuss the impact of XML on the research work conducted in the last few years by ourgroup in the framework of the ARANEUS project. ARANEUS started as an attempt to investigate the chances ofre-applying traditional database concepts and abstractions, such as the ones of data-model and query language,to data on the Web. In this spirit, we have developed several tools and techniques to handle both structured andsemistructured data, in the Web style, as follows: (i) a data model ...