XML Data Transformations as Schema Evolves

Malý, Jakub; Mlýnková, Irena; Nečaský, Martin

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23737-9_27

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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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“…By studying the state-of-the-art and the state-of-thepractice of XML schema evolution and versioning (e.g., [11][12][13][14], [20][21][22][23][24]), we notice that there is no work that has dealt with schema changes involving XML namespaces; all existing approaches and contributions handle schema changes involving basic concepts of XML schemas like XSD elements, attributes, sequences, simple types, and complex type definitions. Furthermore, we also notice that existing XML database management systems and XMLbased tools do not provide any support for handling XML namespace changes.…”

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“…In XML databases, several works have dealt with changes of basic concepts of XML Schemas [10] (e.g., element and attribute declarations, simple types, complex type definitions) [11][12][13][14]. However, there is no work that has dealt with changes involving advanced concepts of XML Schemas like XML namespaces, local/global qualified/ unqualified declarations, and schema definition styles (e.g., Russian Doll, Salami, Bologna, Venetian Blind, Garden of Eden).…”

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A Systematic Approach for Changing XML Namespaces in XML Schemas and Managing their Effects on Associated XML Documents under Schema Versioning

Brahmia¹,

Bouaziz²

2016

Journal of Digital Information Management

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Although a lot of research work has been done concerning schema changes that deal with basic components of XML Schemas, like element and attribute declarations, simple types, and complex type definitions, the current literature of the XML database field does not include any paper that studies changes of advanced concepts of XML Schemas, like XML namespaces, local (or global) qualified (or unqualified) declarations, and schema definition styles (e.g., Russian Doll, Garden of Eden). In this paper, we study how XML namespace evolution is handled in an XML environment that supports both schema and document versioning. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on such a topic. Indeed, we propose a systematic approach that allows specifying changes on XML namespaces defined in XML Schemas, and propagating their effects to underlying XML documents, while maintaining all XML schema and XML instance versions.

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“…The implementation of the algorithm in XSLT (XSLT is a standard language for XML document adaptation, supported on all major platforms) is fully described in [14], thus, the description in this paper is only brief. The algorithm takes as an input two PSM schemas (source schema and target schema) and the set of version links VL.…”

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Semantic Document Adaptation with OCL Annotations

Malý

Nečaský

2013

2013 20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)

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The paper addresses the problem of XML document adaptation -transforming a document valid against an old version of an XML schema to a document valid against the new version of the schema. We propose a solution using a conceptual model, where the relationships between the old and new versions are specified declaratively. We focus on those scenarios, where mere between the structures of the schemas (corresponding to the parts of the XML documents) is not descriptive enough, because there are more intricate relationships between the data in the source and target document. We propose a use of OCL, an expression language and part of the UML standard, to declare the relationships as formal annotations of the mappings. 2013 20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference

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XML Data Transformations as Schema Evolves

Cited by 12 publications

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Conversion of XML schema design styles with StyleVolution

Conversion of XML schema design styles with StyleVolution

A Systematic Approach for Changing XML Namespaces in XML Schemas and Managing their Effects on Associated XML Documents under Schema Versioning

Semantic Document Adaptation with OCL Annotations

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