A Tale of Two Schemas: Creating a Temporal XML Schema from a Snapshot Schema with XSchema
| Venue: | in EDBT. 2004 |
| Citations: | 5 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Currim_atale,
author = {Faiz Currim and Sabah Currim and Curtis Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass},
title = {A Tale of Two Schemas: Creating a Temporal XML Schema from a Snapshot Schema with XSchema},
booktitle = {in EDBT. 2004},
year = {},
pages = {348--365}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. The W3C XML Schema recommendation defines the structure and data types for XML documents. XML Schema lacks explicit support for timevarying XML documents. Users have to resort to ad hoc, non-standard mechanisms to create schemas for time-varying XML documents. This paper presents a data model and architecture, called τXSchema, for creating a temporal schema from a non-temporal (snapshot) schema, a temporal annotation, and a physical annotation. The annotations specify which portion(s) of an XML document can vary over time, how the document can change, and where timestamps should be placed. The advantage of using annotations to denote the time-varying aspects is that logical and physical data independence for temporal schemas can be achieved while remaining fully compatible with both existing XML Schema documents and the XML Schema recommendation. 1
