Your Model or Your XML: How You Can Have Them Both!

Description

These days it's not unusual to have a data administration or database group with a model of an enterprise's data as well as a group creating XML specifications of the same data for information exchange purposes. It's also not unusual that the two groups don't overlap, don't utilize the same naming conventions, etc. This presentation will describe a process that uses your model of your data to derive your XML specifications.

The presentation describes a process to derive your XML specifications from your model and illustrates how the modeling style affects the derived XML. The process is applicable for both tool-based and manual derivations, for both XML DTDs and XML schemas, and for both data models and UML class models.

Audience

Project managers, end users, designers, programmers, modelers, XML practitioners.

Goals

To demonstrate how a model can be used to derive high quality and consistent XML schemas and DTDs.

After the session, you should be able to:

• translate a UML class diagram into an XML schema or DTD
• translate a data model into an XML schema or DTD.

Prerequisites

Some familiarity with a model diagram and some familiarity with XML is helpful, but not required.