Bulletin of the Technical Committee on

Data Engineering

September 1999 ...... Vol. 22 No. 3 ……................................................ IEEE Computer Society Letters
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ..........................................................................................................David Lomet ___1
Letter from the Special Issue Editor ..............................................................................…….....Donald Kossmann___2

Special Issue on XML Describing and Manipulating XML Data ..............………………......................................Sudarshan S. Chawathe___3
Querying XML Data .....Alin Deutsch, Mary Fernandez, Danielo Florescu, Alon Levy, David Maier, Dan Suciu___10
Araneus in the Era of XML ......………...……………Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Merialdo, and Paolo Atzeni ___19
Storing and Querying XML Data Using an RDBMS ...………………... Danielo Florescu and Donald Kossmann___27
Microsoft's Vision for XML .......................…………………………......Adam Bosworth and Allen L. Brown Jr.___35
Data Management for XML: Research Directions ……………………….….........………...........Jennifer Widom___44

Announcements and Notices
VLDB'99 Very Large Databases Conference (pdf, postscript)…………............................................................backcover