Style normalization for canonical X-to-O mappings

Author(s)

Ralf Lämmel

Abstract

An X-to-O mapping takes an XML schema as input and returns an object model as output; this object model is meant for programmatic, schema-aware access to XML data. The provision of X-to-O mappings involves various challenges; one of them is addressed by the present paper: variation in style of schema organization, which should not unduly affect the outcome of X-to-O mappings. We devise transformations for style normalization (and conversion); these transformations operate at both levels of the X-to-O mapping: schemas and object models. An important byproduct of the present work is to showcase functional OO programming as a viable setup for devising software transformations.

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Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{xotrafo,
 author      = "Ralf L{\"a}mmel",
 title       = "{Style normalization for canonical X-to-O mappings}",
 booktitle   = "{PEPM'07: Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2007 Workshop on 
Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation}",
 publisher   = "ACM Press",
 year        = 2007,
}