Testing of Semantic Properties in XML Documents

Dominik Jungo, David Buchmann, Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche

2006

Abstract

XML is a markup language with a clear hierarchical structure. Validating an XML document against a schema document is an important part in the work flow incorporating XML documents. Most approaches use grammar based schema languages. Grammar based schemas are well suited for the syntax definition of an XML document, but come to their limits when semantic properties are to be defined. This paper presents a rule based, first order schema language, complementary to grammar based schema languages, demonstrating its strength in defining semantic properties for an XML document.

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Jungo D., Buchmann D. and Ultes-Nitsche U. (2006). Testing of Semantic Properties in XML Documents . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-49-8, pages 38-46. DOI: 10.5220/0002484500380046


in Bibtex Style

@conference{msvveis06,
author={Dominik Jungo and David Buchmann and Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche},
title={Testing of Semantic Properties in XML Documents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={38-46},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002484500380046},
isbn={978-972-8865-49-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2006)
TI - Testing of Semantic Properties in XML Documents
SN - 978-972-8865-49-8
AU - Jungo D.
AU - Buchmann D.
AU - Ultes-Nitsche U.
PY - 2006
SP - 38
EP - 46
DO - 10.5220/0002484500380046