A Mechanism for Data Conversion between XML and Network Data Model

Abstract

Recently, data exchange is essential in business communication. XML is suitable for carrying data with one-to-many relationship because of its hierarchical structure. However, there are many data with many-to-many relationship in the real world. How to use XML to include such data efficiently is very important. Many researches focus on data conversion between XML and relational data model. None studies this topic for network data model. However, some enterprises and organizations are still using databases of network data model to save data with many-to-many relationship. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to convert the data of network data model to an XML document and vice versa. A data exchange model is illustrated to demonstrate how to implement the proposed mechanism.