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Evolving XML Schemas and Documents Using UML Class Diagrams

Authors: 
Dominguez, Eladio; Lloret, Jorge; Rubio, Angel Luis; Zapata, Maria Antonia
Year: 
2005
Venue: 
Proceedings of the Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005), LNCS 3558, pp. 343-352

The widespread use of XML brings new challenges for its integration into general software development processes. In particular, it is necessary to keep the consistency between different software artifacts and XML documents when evolution tasks are carried out. In this paper we present an approach to evolve XML schemas and documents conceptually modeled by means of UML class diagrams. Evolution primitives are issued on the UML class diagram and are automatically propagated down to the XML schema. The XML documents are also automatically modified to conform to the new XML schema.

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