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XML has emerged as the standard for representing, exchanging and integrating data on the Web. To guarantee the quality of XML documents, the design of quality XML Schemas becomes essentially important. In this paper, we look into this problem by designing quality XML Schemas from given E-R diagrams. We first discuss several criteria in designing a good XML Schema. Following these criteria, transformation rules are then devised that take all constructs of an E-R diagram into account. Finally, a recursive algorithm is developed to transform an E-R diagram to a corresponding quality XML Schema.
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Liu, C., Li, J. (2006). Designing Quality XML Schemas from E-R Diagrams. In: Yu, J.X., Kitsuregawa, M., Leong, H.V. (eds) Advances in Web-Age Information Management. WAIM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11775300_43
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