Developing and analyzing XSDs through BonXai

  • Authors:
  • Wim Martens;Matthias Niewerth;Frank Neven;Thomas Schwentick

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Bayreuth;TU Dortmund University;Hasselt University and Transnational University of Limburg;TU Dortmund University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

BonXai is a versatile schema specification language expressively equivalent to XML Schema. It is not intended as a replacement for XML Schema but it can serve as an additional, user-friendly front-end. It offers a simple way and a lightweight syntax to specify the context of elements based on regular expressions rather than on types. In this demo we show the front-end capabilities of BonXai and exemplify its potential to offer a novel way to view existing XML Schema Definitions. In particular, we present several usage scenarios specifically targeted to showcase the ease of specifying, modifying, and understanding XML Schema Definitions through BonXai.