Martens et al. defined a pattern-based specification language equivalent in expressive power to the widely adopted XML Schema definitions (XSDs). This language consists of rules...
In this paper we present a methodology supporting the definition of data models on basis of a limited set of well-known UML features, thereby allowing these models to be created an...
With the advent of XML as a data representation and exchange format over the web, a massive amount of data is being stored in XML. The task of data transformation for integration ...
We study the satisfiability problem associated with XPath in the presence of DTDs. This is the problem of determining, given a query p in an XPath fragment and a DTD D, whether or...
Integrity constraints are an essential part of a modern schema definition language. They are useful for semantic specification, update consistency control, query optimization, inf...