Lecture 10 on XML Database.ppt

10/03/2009 Lecture 10 on XML Database This lecture introduces XML database as an post relational database, and also as a standard Internet computer language for e-commerce. It covers XML schema in Document Type Definition (DTD) and DTD Graph format, and the methodology of mapping relational schema into XML schema. XML documents are also used for illustration. What is XML? XML is Extensible The tags used to markup HTML documents and the structure of HTML documents are predefined. The author of HTML documents can only use tags that are defined in the HTML standard. XML allows the author to define his own tags and his own document structure. Benefits of using XML It is structured. Documents are easily committed to a persistence layer. Platform independent, textual information. An open standard. Language independent. DOM and SAX are open, language-independent set of interfaces. It is Web enabled. Typical XML System How XML can be used? XML can keep data separated from your HTML document. XML can also store data inside HTML documents (Data Islands). XML can be used to exchange data. XML can be used to store data. XML Syntax An example XML document. ?xml version=1.0? note toTan Siew Teng/to fromLee Sim Wee/from headingReminder/heading bodyDont forget the Golf Championship this weekend!/body /note Example (cont’d) The first line in the document: The XML declaration should always be included. It defines the XML version of the document. In this case the document conforms to the 1.0 specification of XML. ?xml version=1.0? The next line defines the first element of the document (the root element): note Example (cont’d) The next lines defines 4 child elements of the root (to, from, heading, and body): toTan Siew Teng/to fromLee Sim Wee/from headingReminder/heading bodyDont forget the Golf Championship this weekend!/body The last line defines the end of the root element: /note What is an XML element? An XML element is made up of a start tag, an end tag, and dat