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A Virtual XML Database Engine for Relational Databases

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Database and XML Technologies (XSym 2003)

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While XML is emerging as the universal format for publishing and exchanging data on the Web, most business data is still stored and maintained in relational DBMSs. To enable eBusiness database applications, Web access to the legacy data managed by DBMSs needs to be provided. In this paper, we introduce a virtual XML database engine VXE-R which allows users query a relational database via XML as if they were accessing XML documents. Algorithms for schema transformation and query translation in VXE-R are presented.

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  1. University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 5095, Australia

    Chengfei Liu, Millist W. Vincent & Jixue Liu

  2. The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, 965-8580, Japan

    Minyi Guo

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  1. LIRMM - UMR 5506 CNRS / Université Montpellier 2, 161 Rue Ada, F-34392, Montpellier Cedex 5

    Zohra Bellahsène

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  3. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Leipzig,  

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  4. Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, 98052, Redmond, WA, USA

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Liu, C., Vincent, M.W., Liu, J., Guo, M. (2003). A Virtual XML Database Engine for Relational Databases. In: Bellahsène, Z., Chaudhri, A.B., Rahm, E., Rys, M., Unland, R. (eds) Database and XML Technologies. XSym 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2824. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39429-7_3

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