ShreX: A Comprehensive Solution to the XML-to-Relational Mapping Problem
Introduction
XML is becoming the predominant data exchange format in a variety of application
domains ( supply-chain, scientific data processing, telecommunication infrastructure).
By relying on relational storage, XML developers can benefit from a complete
set of data management services and from the highly optimized relational
query processors. In order to store XML data in a RDBMS, it is necessary
first that an XML-to-relational mapping be defined. Once a mapping
is selected, XML documents must be appropriately shredded and loaded into
the database. Finally, queries over the XML documents must be translated
into SQL queries over the mapped relations.
ShreX provides a generic mechanism for specifying mappings, shredding
and querying XML documents. The shredding component accepts as inputs
an annotated XML Schema and XML documents, and outputs CREATE TABLE
statements,
and tuples to populate the tables. The system provides a point-and-click
(Java-based) GUI to help users perform storage operations and define mappings.
The GUI shows visually the correspondence between the XML schema
elements and their counterparts in generated relational schema.
ShreX can be used with virtually any relational database. The
system was written in Java. Xerces is used to parse and shred XML
documents. Shrex has been tested with DB2 and MySQL.
Documentation and Publications
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Last modified: July 13, 2005