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Directorate B: Statistical methodologies and tools Unit B-5: Statistical information technologies Design of the Query Parser Module (.NET) September 2010 Table of Contents Page Introduction 3 Overview 3 Logical View 3 Sequence Diagram 5 Annex A: Terms and abbreviations 6 Annex B: Manual Mapping Set population 7 List of figures Page Figure 1 - Classes of the Query Parser 4 Figure 2 - Query Parser sequence diagram 5 List of tables Page Table 1: Terms and Abbreviations 6 Introduction This document aims to analyse the design of the “Query Parser” module. The “Query Parser” is part of the “SDMX Reference Infrastructure” for dissemination environments, released by Eurostat within 2009. As such, it is a building block that can be re-used within any dissemination environment requiring its functionality. It is compliant with version 2.0 of the SDMX standard, which has been released on November of 2005 (see for more details on the SDMX v2.0 standard). This component offers the possibility parse an SDMX-ML Query (see “SDMX-ML: SCHEMA AND DOCUMENTATION” for details) and produce its in-memory representation. The .NET objects used for holding the data of the SDMX Query returned by the Query Parser exist in the SdmxMlModel library (also developed by Eurostat), which is actually a class model (in C sharp) representation of a subset of the SDMX v2.0 Information Model (“Section 02 Information Model: UML Conceptual Design”). Overview The QueryParser accepts a TexReader of an SDMX-ML query, producing the equivalent QueryBean. The QueryParser uses a custom method similar to SAX using the .NET framework Xml reader. Logical View This section examines the classes of the QueryParser module, as well as the relations and interactions between them Figure 1 - Classes of the Query Parser The main class of the Query Parser is the QueryParser class. It is an implementation similar to the SAX parsing method. The class itself uses internally the XmlReader class in order to parse the SDMX Q