保持数据约束的关系数据库至XML文档的转换

XML已成为Internet上的技术趋势,在保留原有关系数据库的同时发展XML文档是目前的最佳选择,它需要在保持数据依赖约束基础上实现关系数据库与XML文档的转换.这一过程中,模式转换必须先于数据转换,因为现有的关系数据库通常是规范化的,重建XML文档树结构才能实现这一转换.为了达成此目的,首先依据已有的数据依赖约束将规范化的关系联合进一组表格,实现反向规范化,然后将这些联合表格映射为一组DOM,归并成XML文档树,根据用户选择的根结点,以及与它相连的结点形成一个期望的局部文档树,被选的XML文档树又映射为DTD格式的XML模式.这样就可以将联合表映射成一组DOM,并将其归并成单一DOM,最终转换成XML文档.     

XML文档在关系数据库中的规范化存储

提出了一种存储方法，首先把XML文档映射为泛关系模式，再利用算法DeriveFDs推导出XML键所蕴含的泛关系模式上函数依赖集的规范覆盖，根据此规范覆盖，最后将泛关系模式保持函数依赖地分解为3NF模式集。得到了保持XML键约束的规范化存储模式，实现了XML文档在关系数据库中的规范化存储。实验研究表明文中提出的方法是有效的。     

一种基于RDBMS的XML数据的存储方法

XML作为一种数据交换的标准在互联网上推出,使得XML数据和数据库的相互交换成为必要:一是因为WEB中大量的多样化数据需要进行有效的存储和管理;二是因为在现有的数据库中存储有大量的数据并且需要将这些数据转换为XML发布到WEB中。论文提出了一个基于关系数据库的数据转换框架,基于数据的完整性讨论XML数据存储策略。建立一个XML通用数据模型,把文档树分解成多个节点,根据一定的映射规则存储到关系表中,从而不用考虑文档的模式信息(DTD、XMLSchema)。最后通过一个具体的文档实例来说明这种策略的有效性。     

Constraint Preserving Transformation from Relational Schema to XML Schema

XML has become the standard for publishing and exchanging data on the Web. However, most business data is managed and will remain to be managed by relational database management systems. As such, there is an increasing need to efficiently and accurately publish relational data as XML documents for Internet-based applications. One way to publish relational data is to provide virtual XML documents for relational data via an XML schema which is transformed from the underlying relational database schema such that users can access the relational database through the XML schema. In this paper, we discuss issues in transforming a relational database schema into the corresponding XML schema. We aim to preserve all integrity constraints defined in a relational database schema, to achieve high level of nesting and to avoid introducing data redundancy in the transformed XML schema. In the paper, we first propose a basic transformation algorithm which introduces no data redundancy, then we improve the algorithm by exploring further nesting of the transformed XML schema.     

SXBP：基于Pri—order编码的XML文档存储方法

随着XML技术的发展，如何利用现有的数据库技术存储和查询XML文档已成为XML数据管理领域研究的热点问题。本文介绍了一种新的文档编码方法，以及基于这种编码方式提出了一种新的XML文档存储方法。方法按照文档中结点类型将XML文档树型结构分解为结点，分别存储到对应的关系表中，这种方法能够将任意结构的文档存储到一个固定的关系模式中。同时为了便于实现数据的查询，将文档中出现的简单路径模式也存储为一个表。这种新的文档存储方法能够有效地支持文档的查询操作，并能根据结点的编码信息实现原XML文档的正确恢复。最后，对本文提出的存储方法和恢复算法进行了实验验证。     

基于规范化关系模式生成XML的键

现实应用需要从关系数据库中提取数据并以XML的形式进行发布，需要利用定义在XML文档上的键检测发布后的XML文档是否满足原先关系数据库的语义及完整性约束。文章提出了生成XML键的方法，该方法由关系数据库中的键、外键约束构造规范化关系模式的约束概念层次图，并保持语义映射为有效的、完全的XML键约束。     

XML materialized views and schema evolution in VIREX

Web-based databases are gaining increased popularity. This has positively influenced the availability of structured and semi-structured databases for access by a variety of users ranging from professionals to naive users. The number of users accessing online databases will continue to increase if the visual tools connected to web-based databases are flexible and user-friendly enough to meet the expectations of naive users and professionals. Further, XML is accepted as the standard for platform independent data exchange. This motivated for the development of the conversion tools between structured databases and XML. Realizing that such a need has not been well handled by the available tools, including Clio from IBM, we developed VIREX as a visual tool for converting relational databases into XML, and since then has been empowered with further capabilities to manipulate the produced XML schema including the maintenance of materialized views and schema evolution functions. VIREX provides an interactive approach for querying and integrating relational databases to produce XML documents and the corresponding XML schema(s). VIREX supports VRXQuery as a visual naive users-oriented query language that allows users to specify queries and define views directly on the interactive diagram as a sequence of mouse clicks with minimum keyboard input. As the query result, VIREX displays on the screen the XML schema that satisfies the specified characteristics and generates colored (easy to read) XML document(s). The main contribution described in this paper is the novel approach for turning query results into materialized views which are maintained to remain consistent with the underlying database. VIREX supports deferred update of XML views by keeping an ordered summary of the necessary and sufficient information required for the process. Each view has a corresponding marker in the ordered summary to indicate the start of the information to be reflected onto the view when it is accessed. When a view is accessed, its marker moves to the head of the list to mark for the next update. In addition, VIREX supports some basic schema evolution functions include renaming, adding and dropping of elements and attributes, among others. The supported schema evolution functions add flexibility to the view maintenance and materialization process.     

基于语义约束的数据转换模式研究

XML是因特网中不同企业之间进行信息交流的一种标准的数据转换模式,为了加速数据之间的转换,企业组织通过定义公共数据文档接口来实现基于XML的应用。本文提出了一种新的将关系数据模式转换为XML模式的方法。在转换的过程中,不仅考虑关系模式的结构,而且考虑语义约束,比如内部函数依赖。该方法的输入模式是具有多值函数依赖的关系模式,输出模式是X-Schema。最后,通过实验对该转换方法进行了验证。     

基于约束的XML文档规范化算法

XML模式设计是XML数据库设计的关键．基于XML文档的基本概念给出了XML部分函数依赖、传递函数依赖、XML范式、XML第1到第3范式以及DTD无损联接分解的相关定义,提出XML模式规范化转换规则,给出无损联接分解的两种规范化算法,对算法的正确性、可终止性和时间复杂性进行了证明分析,并实验证明了规范化后的文档查询和存储效率有明显的提高．这将对未来的XML函数依赖保持、XML多值依赖以及XML模式设计的进一步规范化研究奠定理论基础．     

Formal transformation from fuzzy object-oriented databases to fuzzy XML

XML has become the standard for publishing and exchanging data on the Web. Since most of the business data nowadays are stored in structured databases including relational and object-oriented databases (OODB), it is of significance to automate the transformation process and generate the XML data containing information from existing databases. At the same time, information imprecision and uncertainty exist in many practical applications, and for this reason, fuzzy data modeling has been extensively investigated in various data models. As such, there is an increasing need to effectively publish fuzzy structured data as fuzzy XML documents for Web-based applications. In this paper, we take a significant step in a fundamental consolidation of fuzzy XML. In particular, we are interested in finding an XML schema that best describes the existing fuzzy object-oriented schema. To accomplish this, we first offer mapping formalisms to capture the semantics of fuzzy XML Schema and fuzzy object-oriented schema. To allow for better and platform independent sharing of data stored in an object-oriented format, we investigate the formal transformation from fuzzy OODB to fuzzy XML and develop a set of rules to assist in the transformation process.     

基于XML Schema的XML存储

文章介绍了一个在关系数据库中,基于XMLSchema的XML存储方案。描述了一个以树模型为模型,XMLSchema为模式的XML数据库的存储系统。首先给出了在关系数据库中存储XMLSchema的方法,在此基础上,又给出了存储XML文档的方法。与通常的XML分解存储方案不同之处在于,在该方案中,XMLSchema被保存到数据库中,未作模式映射,避免了模式映射通常会带来的数据丢失和数据要分散到多个关系表中的问题;对XML文档的存储和查询都是基于XMLSchema的;并且由于所有基于同一个模式的XML文档共享该模式的结构,不必对结构信息进行重复存储,减少了存储空间;最后,由于我们为每一个元素赋予了一个唯一ID值,在进行查询的时候,可以利用该ID值进行定位,具有和XPath表达式相同的作用,但是更为简便。     

基于DOM的XML文档到关系数据库的数据转换方法

随着Internet的普及和Web技术的快速发展,XML正迅速成为事实上的数据表示和交换标准,大量XML数据的涌现出来,为了实现XML数据的快速查询和有效的数据交换,需要将XML文档数据转存到关系数据库中。该文介绍了基于DOM的XML文档到关系数据库的数据转换方法。     

一种基于模型映射的XML文档存储模型

本文提出了一种基于模型映射的XML文档存储模型Xpev,模型映射的主要特点是存储XML文档时不需要文档的模式信息。Xpev主要由三个表构成,通过Xpev可以将以数据为中心的XML文档存储到关系数据库中。Xpev模型优于已有的基于模型映射的存储模型。     

关系模式下的XML数据存取技术研究

XML数据具有自描述性和半结构化特征，所以它能够从自身得到能够描述自己的类似于数据库的数据模式，并且对XML数据进行数据库存取。本文对利用关系模式来映射XML模式从而在关系数据库中存取XML数据的技术，进行了研究和初步应用。     

VIREX and VRXQuery: interactive approach for visual querying of relational databases to produce XML

VIREX provides an interactive approach for querying and integrating relational databases to produce XML documents and the corresponding schemas. VIREX connects to each database specified by the user; analyzes the catalogue to derive an interactive diagram equivalent to the extended entity-relationship diagram; allows the user to display sample records from the tables in the database; allows the user to rename columns and relations by modifying directly the interactive diagram; facilitates the conversion of the relational database into XML; and derives the XML schema. VIREX works even when the catalogue of the relational database is missing; it extracts the required catalogue information by analyzing the database content. Further, VIREX supports VRXQuery, which is a visual naive-users-oriented query language that allows users to specify queries and define views directly on the interactive diagram as a sequence of mouse clicks with minimum keyboard input. The user is expected to interactively decide on certain factors to be considered in producing the XML result. Such factors include: 1) selecting the relations/attributes to be converted into XML; 2) specifying a predicate to be satisfied by the information to be converted into XML; 3) deciding on the order of nesting between the relations to be converted into XML; 4) ordering for the result. VRXQuery supports selection, projection, nesting/join, union, difference, and order-by. As the result of a query, VIREX displays on the screen the XML schema that satisfies the specified characteristics and generates colored (easy to read) XML document(s). Further, VIREX allows the user to display and review the SQL and XQuery equivalent to each query expressed in VRXQuery.     

Tractable XML data exchange via relations

We consider data exchange for XML documents: given source and target schemas, a mapping between them, and a document conforming to the source schema, construct a target document and answer target queries in a way that is consistent with the source information. The problem has primarily been studied in the relational context, in which data-exchange systems have also been built. Since many XML documents are stored in relations, it is natural to consider using a relational system for XML data exchange. However, there is a complexity mismatch between query answering in relational and in XML data exchange. This indicates that to make the use of relational systems possible, restrictions have to be imposed on XML schemas and mappings, as well as on XML shredding schemes. We isolate a set of five requirements that must be fulfilled in order to have a faithful representation of the XML data-exchange problem by a relational translation. We then demonstrate that these requirements naturally suggest the in-lining technique for data-exchange tasks. Our key contribution is to provide shredding algorithms for schemas, documents, mappings and queries, and demonstrate that they enable us to correctly perform XML data-exchange tasks using a relational system.     

基于XSD模式的XML文档与关系数据库的转换

随着XML的广泛应用,有关XML数据与数据库数据相互转换的研究变得越来越重要。本文主要讨论了能保留数据约束的XML模式与关系模式的映射,进而实现了XML文档数据在关系数据库的存储。     

基于ADO．NET和XSLT的数据转换技术

利用XML文档可以实现异构数据库之间的数据交换。各个应用系统只需将数据转换为符合行业规定的XML文档格式．就寸以相互识别交换的数据。文章介绍了在．NET框架下如何利用ADO．NET和XSLT技术将关系型数据转换为规定格式的XML文档。     

一种XML Schema模式到关系模式的映射算法

XML文档数据如何存储在主流的关系数据库中，对企业信息集成起着至关重要的作用。针对此问题，提出一种XML Schema模式到关系模式的约束保留映射算法——XSD2RS，该算法基于模式对象组件建模和约束保留机制来完成XML Schema模式到关系模式的映射，进而实现XML文档数据在关系数据库中的存储。     

一种基于XML的文档处理模型

在某军用软件开发过程中,由于系统文档格式不一致、结构性差,造成了系统文档管理、数据库存储及资源共享的不便。为解决这些问题,给出了一种基于XML的文档处理模型,应用XML和Oracle XML DB技术,对文档作结构化处理,并映射到关系数据库,映射过程中保持了文档模式语义约束和文档保真性;详细介绍了模型的结构和实现技术,并给出了应用实例。