Keynote Address -- Distributed XML Query Processing -- XML Query Processing -- Approximate Joins for XML Using g-String -- Linear Computation of the Maximum Simultaneous Forward and Backward Bisimulation for Node-Labeled Trees -- Extending the Tractability Results on XPath Satisfiability with Sibling Axes -- Extending XQuery with a Pattern Matching Facility -- XML Update and Applications -- A Schema-Based Translation of XQuery Updates -- EBSL: Supporting Deleted Node Label Reuse in XML -- Lessons Learned from DB2 pureXML Applications: A Practitioner’s Perspective -- Searchable Compression of Office Documents by XML Schema Subtraction -- XML Modeling -- Fast Detection of Functional Dependencies in XML Data -- TP+Output: Modeling Complex Output Information in XML Twig Pattern Query -- Promoting the Semantic Capability of XML Keys.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2010, held in Singapore, in September 2010. The 11 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on XML query processing; XML update and applications; and XML modeling.