Abstract
The role of XML in data exchange is evolving from one of merely conveying the structure of data to one that also conveys its semantics. In particular, several proposals for key and foreign key constraints have recently appeared, and aspects of these proposals have been adopted within XMLSchema. In this paper, we examine the problem of checking keys and foreign keys in XML documents using a validator based on SAX. The algorithm relies on an indexing technique based on the paths found in key definitions, and can be used for checking the correctness of an entire document (bulk checking) as well as for checking updates as they are made to the document (incremental checking). The asymptotic performance of the algorithm is linear in the size of the document or update. Furthermore, experimental results demonstrate reasonable performance.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings |
| Editors | K Kalpakis, N Goharian, D Grossman |
| Pages | 446-452 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2002) - McLean, VA, United States Duration: Nov 4 2002 → Nov 9 2002 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2002) |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | McLean, VA |
| Period | 11/4/02 → 11/9/02 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Decision Sciences
- General Business, Management and Accounting