A ToolBox for Conservative XML Schema Evolution and Document Adaptation

Amavi, Joshua; Chabin, Jacques; Ferrari, Mírian Halfeld; Réty, Pierre

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“…In the realm of information systems, XML has been largely adopted as a semi-structured data model and XML schema as a semi-structured data modeling formalism (Abiteboul et al , 2011; Aiken and Allen, 2004; Chaudhri et al , 2003). In this context, although a lot of research work has been done on XML schema evolution (Klettke, 2007; Guerrini and Mesiti, 2008; Cavalieri et al , 2011; Domínguez et al , 2011; Nečaský et al , 2012; Amavi et al , 2014; Klímek et al , 2015) and on XML schema versioning (Dyreson et al , 2006; Brahmia and Bouaziz, 2008; Snodgrass et al , 2008; Malý et al , 2011; Baqasah et al , 2014; Brahmia et al , 2014a, 2016b, 2018a), none of such approaches has dealt with changes involving XML schema design styles.…”

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Conversion of XML schema design styles with StyleVolution

Brahmia

Grandi

Bouaziz

2019

IJWIS

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Purpose Any XML schema definition can be organized according to one of the following design styles: “Russian Doll”, “Salami Slice”, “Venetian Blind” and “Garden of Eden” (with the additional “Bologna” style actually representing absence of style). Conversion from a design style to another can facilitate the reuse and exchange of schema specifications encoded using the XML schema language. Without any computer-aided engineering support, style conversions must be performed very carefully as they are difficult and error-prone operations. The purpose of this paper is to efficiently deal with such XML schema design style conversions. Design/methodology/approach A general approach, named StyleVolution, for automatic management of XML schema design style conversions, is proposed. StyleVolution is equipped with a suite of seven procedures: four for converting a valid XML schema from any other design style to the “Garden of Eden” style, which has been chosen as a normalized XML schema format, and three for converting from the “Garden of Eden” style to any of the other desired design styles. Findings Procedures, algorithms and methods for XML schema design style conversions are presented. The feasibility of the approach has been shown through the encoding (using the XQuery language) and the testing (with the Altova XMLSpy 2019 tool) of a suite of seven ready-to-use procedures. Moreover, four test procedures are provided for checking the conformance of a given input XML schema to a schema design style. Originality/value The proposed approach implements a new technique for efficiently managing XML schema design style conversions, which can be used to make any given XML schema file to conform to a desired design style.

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Conversion of XML schema design styles with StyleVolution

Brahmia

Grandi

Bouaziz

2019

IJWIS

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A ToolBox for Conservative XML Schema Evolution and Document Adaptation

Amavi

Chabin

Ferrari

et al. 2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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This paper proposes a set of tools to help dealing with XML database evolution. It aims at establishing a multi-system environment where a global integrated system works in harmony with some local original ones, allowing data translation in both directions and, thus, activities on both levels. To deal with schemas, we propose an algorithm that computes a mapping capable of obtaining a global schema which is a conservative extension of original local schemas. The role of the obtained mapping is then twofold: it ensures schema evolution, via composition and inversion, and it guides the construction of a document translator, allowing automatic data adaptation w.r.t. type evolution. This paper applies, extends and put together some of our previous contributions.

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Efficient Querying of XML Data Through Arbitrary Security Views

Mahfoud¹,

Imine²

2015

Transactions on Large-Scale Data- And Knowledge-Centered Systems XXII

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International audienceWe study the problem of querying virtual security views of XML data that has received a great attention during the past years. A major concern here is that user XPath queries posed on recursive views cannot be rewritten to be evaluated on the underlying XML data. Existing rewriting solutions are based on the non-standard language, “Regular XPath”, which makes rewriting possible under recursion. However, query rewriting under Regular XPath can be of exponential size. We show that query rewriting is always possible for arbitrary security views (recursive or not) by using only the expressive power of the standard XPath. We propose a more expressive language to specify XML access control policies as well as an efficient algorithm to enforce such policies. Finally, we present our system, called SVMAX, that implements our solutions and we show that it scales well through an extensive experimental study based on real-life DTD

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A ToolBox for Conservative XML Schema Evolution and Document Adaptation

Cited by 7 publications

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Conversion of XML schema design styles with StyleVolution

Conversion of XML schema design styles with StyleVolution

A ToolBox for Conservative XML Schema Evolution and Document Adaptation

Efficient Querying of XML Data Through Arbitrary Security Views

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