Soft Computing in XML Data Management

Handling the interoperability issues in multiple, heterogeneous XML sources is central in XML data management and mining. In this chapter, we present a framework for the intensional integration and exploration of XML sources. Specifically, we propose a three-layer framework aimed at extracting interschema knowledge from the available sources, constructing a hierarchy based on the extracted knowledge to represent the sources at different abstraction levels, and finally organizing and exploring the sources through the constructed hierarchy. We also describe possible implementations of each of the three layers, focusing on the extraction of intensional interschema properties, the intensional integration of XML sources, and the clustering of XML schemas. In order to better handle the complexity of its activities, the proposed framework has been designed by means of the layers architecture patterns and the component-based development paradigm.

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XML Data Management in Object Relational Database Systems

Advanced Applications and Structures in XML Processing ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-727-5.ch002 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 18-46

Author(s):

Zhen Hua Liu ◽

Anguel Novoselsky ◽

Vikas Arora

Keyword(s):

Data Management ◽

Research Work ◽

Database Systems ◽

Xml Data ◽

Significant Research ◽

Object Relational ◽

Pros And Cons ◽

Relational Database Systems ◽

Xml Indexing ◽

Xml Data Management

Since the advent of XML, there has been significant research into integrating XML data management with Relational DBMS and Object Relational DBMS (ORDBMS). This chapter describes the XML data management capabilities in ORDBMS, various design approaches and implementation techniques to support these capabilities, as well as the pros and cons of each design and implementation approach. Key topics such as XML storage, XML Indexing, XQuery and SQL/XML processing, are discussed in depth presenting both academic and industrial research work in these areas.

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XQBE

Visual Languages for Interactive Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-534-4.ch017 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 357-387

Author(s):

Alessandro Campi

Keyword(s):

Data Management ◽

Visual Representation ◽

Integrity Constraints ◽

Considerable Effort ◽

Xml Data ◽

Xml Documents ◽

Programming Skills ◽

The One ◽

Definition Of ◽

Xml Data Management

This Chapter describes a visual framework; called XQBE; that covers the most important aspects of XML data management; spanning the visualization of XML documents; the formulation of queries; the representation and specification of document schemata; the definition of integrity constraints; the formulation of updates; and the expression of reactive behaviors in response to data modifications. All these features are strongly unified by a common visual abstraction and a few recurrent paradigms; so as to provide a homogeneous and comprehensive environment that allows even users without advanced programming skills to deal with nontrivial XML data management and transformation tasks. The intrinsic ambiguity inherent in any visual representation of richly expressive languages required a considerable effort of formalization in the semantics of XQBE that eventually lead to a solution with major advantages in terms of intuitiveness. In other words; this means that the unique (and unambiguous) effect of a statement is the one the user would expect.

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