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EReX: A Conceptual Model for XML

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Database and XML Technologies (XSym 2004)

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In the last few years, XML has been widely used as a logical data model, and several database applications are modeled in XML. To model a database application in XML, we should first come up with a conceptual design for representing the application requirements, and then translate this conceptual design to XML. Existing conceptual models like the ER (Entity Relationship) model, UML and ORM do not have modeling capabilities to represent main features provided by XML, such as union types. In this work, we extend the ER model with additional features; we call our conceptual model as EReX (ER extended for XML). Translating an EReX design to XML enables us to make use of the different features provided by XML. Our approach further enables us to study a fundamental problem facing XML database community today: what structural and constraint specification should be provided in XML so that any generic database application can be modeled in XML.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

    Murali Mani

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  1. LIRMM - UMR 5506 CNRS / Université Montpellier 2, 161 Rue Ada, F-34392, Montpellier Cedex 5

    Zohra Bellahsène

  2. School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University,  

    Tova Milo

  3. Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, WA 98052, Redmond, USA

    Michael Rys

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington,  

    Dan Suciu

  5. Universität Duisburg-Essen,  

    Rainer Unland

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Mani, M. (2004). EReX: A Conceptual Model for XML. In: Bellahsène, Z., Milo, T., Rys, M., Suciu, D., Unland, R. (eds) Database and XML Technologies. XSym 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3186. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30081-6_10

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