A role-based approach to access control for XML databases

  • Authors:
  • Jingzhu Wang;Sylvia L. Osborn

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada;The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In order to provide a general access control methodology for parts of XML documents, we propose combining role-based access control as found in the Role Graph Model, with a methodology originally designed for object-oriented databases. We give a description of the methodology, showing how different access modes, XPath expressions and roles can be combined, and how propagation of permissions is handled. Given this general approach, a system developer can design a complex authorization model for collections of XML documents.