TITLE:
Semantic Enrichment of XML Schema to Transform Association Relationships in ODL Schema
AUTHORS:
Doha Malki, Mohamed Bahaj
KEYWORDS:
XML Schemas, ODL, Mapping, Association, OODB
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.8 No.2,
February
15,
2015
ABSTRACT: This paper presents an approach for
transforming an XML schema we enriched in ODL (Object Definition Language)
schemas. It is possible to realize the concepts of ODL in a model of XML
schema, we propose to introduce an enrichment concretizing these concepts in
the XML Schema models. We chose oriented object database as a target database
because there are many common characteristics between XML and object-oriented
model, thus the mapping from XML data into object-oriented databases is more
interesting. Also the object-oriented data bases have become very widespread
and acceptable and they offer an evolutionary approach, so we agree that it is
time to develop a translation between XML and OO databases. The purpose of this
article is to automate transformation process of an XML schema to an ODL
database. Our work focuses on preserving semantics transformation of
association relationships and we describe set of rules to create ODL classes
from an enriched XML schema. The experimental study shows that the approach is
feasible, and results are the same, the source database is transformed into
target one without loss of data.