2004/02/02 by Uzair Ahmad, Mohammad Waseem Hassan, Ahmad, Uzair +7
Computer Science · #Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications #Advanced Database Systems and Queries #Databases (cs.DB) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H2.4 #Software Engineering (cs.SE)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0402007
openalex publication_date 2004/02/02 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
CERN's (European Organization for Nuclear Research) WISDOM project uses XML for the replication of data between different data repositories in a heterogeneous operating system environment. For exchanging data from Web-resident databases, the data needs to be transformed into XML and back to the database format. Many different approaches are employed to do this transformation. This paper addresses issues that make this job more efficient and robust than existing approaches. It incorporates the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Schema specification in the database-XML relationship. Incorporation of the XML Schema exhibits significant improvements in XML content usage and reduces the limitations of DTD-based database XML services. Secondly the paper explores the possibility of database independent transformation of data between XML and different databases. It proposes a standard XML format that every serialized object should follow. This makes it possible to use objects of heterogeneous database seamlessly using XML.