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XML Documents Normalization Using GN-DTD

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  • Zurinahni Zainol

    (University of Hull, UK, and Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)

  • Bing Wang

    (University of Hull, UK)

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Designing a well-structured XML document is important for the sake of readability, maintainability and more importantly to avoid both data redundancies and update anomalies. This paper proposes to improve and simplify XML structural design using a normalization process. To achieve this, Graphical Notation for Document Type Definition (GN-DTD) is used to describe the structure of XML document at the schema level. Multiple levels of normal forms for GN-DTD are proposed and the corresponding normalization rules to transform from poorly designed into well-designed XML documents. A case study is presented to show the application of these normal forms and normalization algorithm.

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  • Zurinahni Zainol & Bing Wang, 2011. "XML Documents Normalization Using GN-DTD," International Journal of Information Retrieval Research (IJIRR), IGI Global, vol. 1(1), pages 53-76, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jirr00:v:1:y:2011:i:1:p:53-76
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