Holistic constraint-preserving transformation from relational schema into XML schema
conference contribution
posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00authored byRui Zhou, Chengfei Liu, Jianxin Li
In this paper, we propose a holistic scheme of transforming a relational schema into an XML Schema with integrity constraints preserved. This scheme facilitates constructing a schema for the published XML views of relational data. With this schema, users are able to issue qualified queries against XML views, and discover update anomalies in advance before propagating the view updates into relational database. Compared to the previous work which splits the transformation process into two steps, we establish a holistic solution to directly transform a relational schema into an XML Schema without building a reference graph. We achieve this by classifying the underlying relations in a more concise and effective way, and applying the converting rules wisely. The rules are also devised to be more compact and less complicated in contrast to those in our previous work. Finally, we manage to crack another hard nut which was seldom touched before, i.e. converting circularly referenced relations into recursive XML Schema.
History
Pagination
4-18
Location
New Delhi, India
Start date
2008-03-19
End date
2008-03-21
ISBN-13
978-3-540-78567-5
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2008, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Editor/Contributor(s)
Haritsa JR, Kotagiri R, Pudi V
Title of proceedings
DASFAA 2008 : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Event
Database Systems for Advanced Applications. Conference (13th : 2008 : New Delhi, India)
Publisher
Springer
Place of publication
Berlin, Germany
Series
Database Systems for Advanced Applications Conference