Authors:
A. Duffoux
;
B. Duval
and
S. Loiseau
Affiliation:
LERIA, France
Keyword(s):
XML Schema, Quantified constraint, Conditional constraint, Validation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Expert Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Model-Based Reasoning
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In this paper, we present a new model to represent complex constraints in XML schema. Due to its flexibility and its capacity to describe all kinds of data, XML has become a widely used exchange format during the last years. Hence, such data have been integrated in several information systems. However these systems need strengthness and coherence that XML in its primary form can not provide. We thus propose to extend classical XML schema in order to integrate a quantification of constraints and to allow conditional constraints on several elements. Thanks to this extension, XML applications can have a richer and stronger framework. To illustrate the use of this new model, we present a case study concerning XML curriculum vitae treatment.