Research of XML Documents Based on Functional Dependency
Based on design of databank,we study XML functional dependency.XML functional dependency is presented based on path expression and tree model,and a sound complete set of inference rules of XML functional dependency is given.Implementing of data exchange between heterogeneous databases with XML has important theoretic significance and practical value.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the Australian Research ::: Council for financial support and Swinburne University ::: of Technology for Strategic Initiative funding. One of ::: the authors X.W. acknowledges partial financial support of ::: the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation ::: 10364004 and the Yunnan Natural Science Foundation ::: 2003E0013M.