Extracting association rules from XML documents using XQuery Jacky W. W. Wan and Gillian Dobbie   View Paper (PDF)   Return to XML and information integration Abstract Data mining is generally considered the extraction and analysis of information from databases. With the rapid growth of XML data available online, mining XML data from the web is becoming important. In support of this trend, several encouraging attempts at developing methods for mining XML data have been proposed. However, efficiency and simplicity are still a barrier for further development In this paper, we show that any XML document can be mined for association rules using only the query language XQuery without any pre-processing or post-processing. ©2004 Association for Computing Machinery