Reverse engineering of XML schemas to conceptual diagrams

Authors:
Martin Nečaský
Affiliations:
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Venue:
APCCM '09 Proceedings of the Sixth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modeling - Volume 96
Year:
2009

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Abstract

It is frequent in practice that different logical XML schemas representing the same reality from different viewpoints exist. There is also usually a conceptual diagram modeling the reality independently of the viewpoints. It is important to keep the XML schemas and conceptual diagram consistent as they are both utilized for different purposes. In practice, this is however rarely the case. In this paper, we propose a reverse engineering method as a solution to this problem. We provide a semi-automatic algorithm that produces mappings of components of the XML schemas to components of the conceptual diagram. The method only provides suggestions for the mapping and manual participation of a domain expert is therefore required.