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International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering

WISE 2007: Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2007 pp 184–195Cite as

A Survey of UML Models to XML Schemas Transformations

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UML is being increasing used for the analysis and design of Web Information Systems. At the same time, many XML–based languages are cornerstones in the development of this kind of system. As a consequence of the predominance of these languages, there are many works in the literature devoted to exploring the relationships between UML and XML. In this paper we present a survey of current approaches to the transformation of UML models into XML schemas. The study is focused on the case of transformation of UML class diagrams to XML schemas, since we have not found any proposal regarding other kinds of UML diagrams.

This work has been partially supported by DGI (project TIN2005-05534 and FPU grant AP2003-2713), by the Government of La Rioja (project ANGI 2005/19), by the Government of Aragon and by the European Social Fund.

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  1. Dpto. de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas, Facultad de Ciencias, Edificio de Matemáticas, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain

    Eladio Domínguez, Jorge Lloret, Beatriz Pérez, Áurea Rodríguez & María A. Zapata

  2. Dpto. de Matemáticas y Computación, Edificio Vives, Universidad de La Rioja, 26004 Logroño, Spain

    Ángel L. Rubio

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Domínguez, E., Lloret, J., Pérez, B., Rodríguez, Á., Rubio, Á.L., Zapata, M.A. (2007). A Survey of UML Models to XML Schemas Transformations. In: Benatallah, B., Casati, F., Georgakopoulos, D., Bartolini, C., Sadiq, W., Godart, C. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2007. WISE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76993-4_16

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