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Your representation in ER could be for one of the following 2 things..
(a) Show how an ER representation can be serialized into XML, and given an
ER schema how we can translate it to an XML representation.
(b) Given an XML schema, how can we represent it in ER. for example, we
can translate it into entity types such as "complexTypeDefinition" etc...
Rather a kind of normalization/rewriting of XML schema..
I now see that your intent is (a), which is show how an ER representation
can be translated to an XML document..
The question then for (a) is how do you handle entity types that are
related to multiple types, recursive etc.. In other words, do you provide
means of "breaking the hierarchy"... i.e. we do not want the same entity
type to be represented multiple times..
anyways, i am asking these more out of curiosity.. hopefully this is
helpful...
cheers and regards - murali.
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Murali Mani <mani@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:
>
>
> > But I do not understand the reasons for the "er" translation. It seems
> > like you have entity types like "complexTypeDefinition", "attributeUse",
> > "attributeDeclaration" and so on, and you are trying to understand how an
> > author has written a schema better, rather than the actual information the
> > schema contains..
>
> Note I'm just using the schema domain as I happen to have examples of
> everything I need to hand, i.e. existing data model/ontology and vernacular
> XML representation.
>
> So none of this has to do with understanding W3C XML Schema at all,
> rather the idea of a 'vernacular'--'generic' dimension along which to
> classify XML document types.
>
> The er: fragment I gave is an example of generic XML encoding of a
> data model. In the particular model at hand, "complexTypeDefinition",
> "attributeUse" and "attributeDeclaration" were the relevant entity
> types, but the whole point of the generic style is that _any_
> data-model vocabulary can be used with that fixed tagset.
>
> ht
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