A Model for Data Exchange between XML Documents and Hierarchical Databases

Abstract

In recent years, data exchange is popular among enterprises and organizations. The data may be structured or unstructured such as purchase orders, product catalogs, official documents and so on. XML, developed by W3C, has been extensively applied to many areas, especially for database applications. Most researches focused on data exchange between XML documents and relational databases. However, the hierarchical database is still used in some businesses. In this paper, we propose a model for enterprises or organizations to perform data exchange between XML documents and hierarchical databases. A scenario is illustrated to demonstrate the process of data exchange between two companies.