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About
ER2XML
Developed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute CS MQP team.
Jinho Kang - Class of 2006
Min Song - Class of 2005
Murali Mani - Project Advisor
ABSTRACT
In last few years, database trends have shown us that Extensible
Markup Language known as XML is emerging as new standards language
for data exchange. On the other hand, the ER model and ER diagram
which has been used widely for data modeling and database design for
more than twenty years, has become an arguably obsolete data
modeling method for XML applications. For this reason, concept of
EReX (ER extended for XML) has been introduced. Since EReX model
will enable us to represent number of features provided by XML that
we previously could not represent due to the limitation of ER,
generating XML schema using EReX will be highly advantageous than
using typical ER model to generate XML schema. In this work we have
implemented a program called ER2XML which fully adapts concepts of
EReX and a XML schema syntax, XGrammar. On this report, we will
present benchmark of our program in terms of its translation ability
with various types of real world XML models. Also, the underlying
concept of the program will be described as well. |