[工程科技]TheStructured-ElementObjectModelforXMLsubmittedby.pdf

The Structured-Element Object Model for XML MA Chak Kei A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Philosophy in Computer Science Engineering Supervised by: Prof. Michael R. Lyu  The Chinese University of Hong Kong July, 2002 The Chinese University of Hong Kong holds the copyright of this thesis. Any person(s) intending to use a part or whole of the materials in the thesis in a proposed publication must seek copyright release from the Dean of the Graduate School. i The Structured-Element Object Model for XML submitted by MA Chak Kei for the degree of Master of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Abstract The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is widely used in exchanging and storing information for various Internet-enabled applications. In general, XML represents semi-structured data with no rigid schema, and the basis for processing XML data is to establish a suitable data model for XML data. There has been a lot of work for modeling XML data into relational and object-relational models to facilitate better information management. However, for XML data modeling in application development, an object-oriented data model can reflect the concepts of components in object-oriented programming languages more appropriately, which benefits building of re