Authors:
B. M. Monjurul Alom
;
Frans Henskens
and
Michael Hannaford
Affiliation:
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Australia
Keyword(s):
XML, Reference Relationship, RDBMS, FCL, PT, CRT.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Business Analytics
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Data Engineering
;
Data Warehouses and Data Mining
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
Abstract:
The most dominant data format for data processing on the Internet is the semistructured data form termed XML. XML data has no fixed schema; it evolved, and is self describing which results in management difficulties compared to, for example, relational data. This paper presents a reference relationship scheme that encompasses parent and child reference relations to store XML data in a relational view, and that provides improved of storage performance. We present an analytical analysis that compares the scheme with other standard methods of conversion from XML to relational forms. A relational to XML data conversion algorithm that translates the relational data into original XML data form is also presented.