World Wide Web Journal - Special issue on XML: principles, tools, and techniques
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
ERX: a conceptual model for XML documents
SAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM symposium on Applied computing - Volume 2
Comparative analysis of six XML schema languages
ACM SIGMOD Record
Automated Software Engineering
A Model for XML Schema Integration
EC-WEB '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies
A Rule-Based Conversion of a DTD to a Conceptual Schema
ER '01 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: Conceptual Modeling
Semantic Data Modeling Using XML Schemas
ER '01 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: Conceptual Modeling
XML conceptual modeling with XUML
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Query reformulation for an XML-based data integration system
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
WWW business applications based on the cellular model
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
When conceptual model meets grammar: A dual approach to XML data modeling
Data & Knowledge Engineering
On the feasibility of using conceptual modeling constructs for the design and analysis of XML data
Data & Knowledge Engineering
XCase - a tool for conceptual XML data modeling
ADBIS'09 Proceedings of the 13th East European conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems
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XML has become the standard format for representing structured and semi-structured data on the Web. To describe the structure and content of XML data, several XML schema languages have been proposed. Although being very useful for validating XML documents, an XML schema is not suitable for tasks requiring knowledge about the semantics of the represented data. For such tasks it is better to use a conceptual schema. This paper presents an extension of the Entity Relationship (ER) model, called X-Entity, for conceptual modeling of XML schemas. We also present the process of converting a schema, defined in the XML Schema language, to an X-Entity schema. The conversion process is based on a set of rules that consider element declarations and type definitions and generates the corresponding conceptual elements. Such representation provides a cleaner description for XML schemas by focusing only on semantically relevant concepts. The X Entity model has been used in the context of a Web data integration system with the goal of providing a concise and semantic description for local schemas defined in XML Schema.