@inproceedings{d89b810e1cd249728ac483320110be70,
title = "Semantic data modeling using XML schemas",
abstract = "Most research on XML has so far largely neglected the data modeling aspects of XML schemas. In this paper, we attempt to make a systematic approach to data modeling capabilities of XML schemas. We first formalize a core set of features among a dozen competing XML schema language proposals and introduce a new notion of XGrammar. The benefits of such formal description is that it is both concise and precise. We then compare the features of XGrammar with those of the Entity-Relationship (ER) model. We especially focus on three data modeling capabilities of XGrammar: (a) the ability to represent ordered binary relationships, (b) the ability to represent a set of semantically equivalent but structurally different types as “one” type using the closure properties, and (c) the ability to represent recursive relationships.",
author = "Murali Mani and Dongwon Lee and Muntz, {Richard R.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.; 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2001 ; Conference date: 27-11-2001 Through 30-11-2001",
year = "2001",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-45581-7_13",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3540428666",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "149--163",
editor = "Kunii, {Hideko S.} and Sushil Jajodia and Arne Solvberg",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
address = "Germany",
}