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Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences, Vol. 28 No. 1-2, 2004.

Original scientific paper

CONVERTING RELATIONSHIPS TO XML NESTED STRUCTURES

Angela C. Duta ; Department of Computer Science, Universitiy of Calgary, Canada
Ken Barker ; Department of Computer Science, Universitiy of Calgary, Canada
Reda Alhajj ; Department of Computer Science, Universitiy of Calgary, Canada

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Abstract

Conversion of relational data to XML is a critical topic in the database area. This approach translates the rigid tabular structures of relational databases into hierarchical XML structures. Logical connections between bits of data depicted by relationships are represented more naturally by tree-like structures. Conv2XML and ConvRel are two algorithms for converting relational schema to XML Schema focusing on preserving the source relationships and their structural constraints. ConvRel translates each relationship individually into a nested XML structure. Conv2XML identifies complex nested structures capable of modelling all relationships existent in a relational database.

Keywords

schema conversion; structural constraints; relationships; XML nested structure

Hrčak ID:

78306

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/78306

Publication date:

15.12.2004.

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