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XML and Its Specification
Zachary G. IvesUniversity of Pennsylvania
CIS 455 / 555 – Internet and Web Systems
January 31, 2008
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Today’s Topics
XML DOM Schemas Manipulating XML via query languages
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Recall: Issues in Sending Data
How do we send data within a program? What is the implicit model? How does this change when we need to make
the data persistent?
What happens when we are coupling systems? How do we send data between programs on
the same machine? Between different machines?
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One Aspect Is Marshalling (Serialization/Deserialization)
Converting from an in-memory data structure to something that can be sent elsewhere
Pointers -> something else Specific byte orderings Metadata
Note that the same logical data gets a different physical encoding A specific case of Codd’s idea of logical-physical
separation “Data model” vs. “data”
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Communication and Streams
When storing data to disk, we have a combination of sequential and random access
When sending data on “the wire”, data is only sequential “Stream-based communication” based on packets
What are the implications here? Pipelining, incremental evaluation, …
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Why Data Interchange Is Hard
Need to be able to understand: Data encoding (physical data model)
May have syntactic heterogeneity Endian-ness, marshalling issues Impedance mismatches
Data representation (logical data model) May have semantic heterogeneity Imprecise and ambiguous values/descriptions
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Examples
MP3 ID3 format – record at end of file
offset
length description
0 3 "TAG" identifier string.
3 30 Song title string.
33 30 Artist string.
63 30 Album string.
93 4 Year string.
97 28 Comment string.
125 1 Zero byte separator.
126 1 Track byte.
127 1 Genre byte.
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ExamplesJPEG “JFIF” header:
Start of Image (SOI) marker -- two bytes (FFD8) JFIF marker (FFE0) length -- two bytes identifier -- five bytes: 4A, 46, 49, 46, 00
(the ASCII code equivalent of a zero terminated "JFIF" string) version -- two bytes: often 01, 02
the most significant byte is used for major revisions the least significant byte for minor revisions
units -- one byte: Units for the X and Y densities 0 => no units, X and Y specify the pixel aspect ratio 1 => X and Y are dots per inch 2 => X and Y are dots per cm
Xdensity -- two bytes Ydensity -- two bytes Xthumbnail -- one byte: 0 = no thumbnail Ythumbnail -- one byte: 0 = no thumbnail (RGB)n -- 3n bytes: packed (24-bit) RGB values for the
thumbnail pixels, n = Xthumbnail * Ythumbnail
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Finding File Formats
You may need to know details in order to, e.g., crawl certain kinds of data formats
http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://www.wotsit.org/ etc.
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The Problem
You need to look into a manual to find file formats (At best, e.g., MS .DOC file format)
The Web is about making data exchange easier… Maybe we can do better! “The mother of all file formats”
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Desiderata for Data Interchange
Ability to represent many kinds of information
Different data structures
Hardware-independent encodingEndian-ness, UTF vs. ASCII vs. EBCDIC
Standard tools and interfaces Ability to define “shape” of expected data
With forwards- and backwards-compatibility!
That’s XML…
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Consumers of XML
A myriad of tools and interfaces, including: DOM – document object model
Standard OO representation of an XML tree
SAX – simple API for XML An event-driven parser interface for XML
startElement, endElement, etc.
Ant – Java-based “make” tool with XML “makefile”
XPath, XQuery, XSL, XSLT Web service standards
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XML as a Data Model
XML “information set” includes 7 types of nodes: Document (root) Element Attribute Processing instruction Text (content) Namespace: Comment
XML data model includes this, plus typing info, plus order info and a few other things
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Example XML Document<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <dblp> <mastersthesis mdate="2002-01-03" key="ms/Brown92"> <author>Kurt P. Brown</author> <title>PRPL: A Database Workload Specification Language</title> <year>1992</year> <school>Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison</school> </mastersthesis> <article mdate="2002-01-03" key="tr/dec/SRC1997-018"> <editor>Paul R. McJones</editor> <title>The 1995 SQL Reunion</title> <journal>Digital System Research Center Report</journal> <volume>SRC1997-018</volume> <year>1997</year> <ee>db/labs/dec/SRC1997-018.html</ee> <ee>http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/</ee> </article>
Processing Instr.
Element
Attribute
Close-tag
Open-tag
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XML Data Model Visualized(~ Document Object Model)
Root
?xml dblp
mastersthesis article
mdate key
author title year school editor title yearjournal volume eeee
mdatekey
2002…
ms/Brown92
Kurt P….
PRPL…
1992
Univ….
2002…
tr/dec/…
Paul R.
The…
Digital…
SRC…
1997
db/labs/dec
http://www.
attributeroot
p-i element
text
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A Few Common Uses of XML
Extensible HTML Allows custom tags (e.g., used by MS Word,
openoffice) Supplement it with stylesheets (XSL) to define
formatting
Exchange format for data (still need to agree on terminology) Tables, objects, etc.
Format for marshalling and unmarshalling data in Web Services (remote function calls + returns)
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XML as a Super-HTML(MS Word)
<h1 class="Section1"><a name="_top“ />CIS 550: Database and Information Systems</h1><h2 class="Section1">Fall 2003</h2><p class="MsoNormal">
<place>311 Towne</place>, Tuesday/Thursday<time Hour="13" Minute="30">1:30PM –
3:00PM</time></p>
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XML Easily Encodes Relations
id course
grade
1 330-f03
B
23 455-s04
A<student-course-grade>
<tuple><sid>1</sid><course>330-f03</
course><grade>B</grade></tuple><tuple>
<sid>23</sid><course>455-s04</course><grade>A</grade></tuple>
</student-course-grade>
Student-course-grade
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It Also Encodes Objects
<projects> <project class=“cse455” >
<type>Programming</type><memberList>
<teamMember>Joan</teamMember><teamMember>Jill</teamMember>
</memberList><codeURL>www….</codeURL><incorporatesProjectFrom class=“cse330” />
</project>…
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XML and Code
Web Services (.NET, recent Java web service toolkits) are using XML to pass parameters and make function calls Why?
Easy to be forwards-compatible Easy to read over and validate (?) Generally firewall-compatible
Drawbacks? XML is a verbose and inefficient encoding!
We’ll see Web Services in more detail soon…
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Integrating XML: What If We Have Multiple Sources with the Same Tags?
Namespaces allow us to specify a context for different tags
Two parts: Binding of namespace to URI Qualified names
<tag xmlns:myns=“http://www.fictitious.com/mypath”><thistag>is in namespace myns</thistag><myns:thistag>is the same</myns:thistag><otherns:thistag>is a different tag</otherns:thistag>
</tag>
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XML Isn’t Enough on Its Own
It’s too unconstrained for many cases! How will we know when we’re getting
garbage? How will we query? How will we understand what we got?
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Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
DTD is an EBNF grammar defining XML structure XML document specifies an associated DTD, plus
the root element DTD specifies children of the root (and so on)
DTD defines special significance for attributes: IDs – special attributes that are analogous to
keys for elements IDREFs – references to IDs IDREFS – space-delimited list of IDREFs
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An Example DTD
Example DTD:<!ELEMENT dblp((mastersthesis | article)*)><!ELEMENT mastersthesis(author,title,year,school,committeemember*)><!ATTLIST mastersthesis(mdate CDATA #REQUIRED
key ID #REQUIREDadvisor CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT author(#PCDATA)>
…Example use of DTD in XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE dblp SYSTEM “my.dtd"> <dblp>…
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Representing Graphs in XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE graph SYSTEM “special.dtd"> <graph>
<author id=“author1”><name>John Smith</name>
</author><article>
<author ref=“author1” /> <title>Paper1</title></article><article>
<author ref=“author1” /> <title>Paper2</title></article>
…
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Graph Data ModelRoot
!DOCTYPE
graph
authorarticle
nametitle
refref
John Smith
author1author1
Paper2
?xml
article
id
author1
author authortitle
Paper1
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Graph Data ModelRoot
!DOCTYPE
graph
authorarticle
nametitle
refref
John Smith
Paper2
?xml
article
id
author1
author authortitle
Paper1
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DTDs Are Very Limited
DTDs capture grammatical structure, but have some drawbacks: Not themselves in XML – inconvenient to build
tools for them Don’t capture types of scalars Global ID/reference space is inconvenient No way of defining OO-like inheritance
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XML Schema: DTDs Rethought
Features: XML syntax Better way of defining keys using XPaths Type subclassing … And, of course, built-in datatypes
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Basic Constructs of Schema
Separation of elements (and attributes) from types: complexType is a structured type
It can have sequences or choices
element and attribute have name and type Elements may also have minOccurs and maxOccurs
Subtyping, most commonly using:<complexContent> <extension base=“prevType”> … </…>
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Simple Schema Example
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:element name=“mastersthesis" type=“ThesisType"/> <xsd:complexType name=“ThesisType">
<xsd:attribute name=“mdate" type="xsd:date"/><xsd:attribute name=“key" type="xsd:string"/><xsd:attribute name=“advisor" type="xsd:string"/><xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name=“author" type=“xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name=“title" type=“xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name=“year" type=“xsd:integer"/> <xsd:element name=“school" type=“xsd:string”/> <xsd:element name=“committeemember"
type=“CommitteeType” minOccurs=“0"/> </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
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Embedding XML Schema
<root xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="s1.xsd" > <grade>a</grade> </root>
<s1:root xmlns:s1="http://www.schemaValid.com/s1ns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.schemaValid.com/s1ns s1ns.xsd" > <s1:grade>a</s1:grade> </s1:root>
But the XML parser is actually free to ignore this – the schema is typically specified “from outside” the document
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Designing an XML Schema/DTD
Often we are given a DTD/Schema; if not, we need to design one
We orient the XML tree around the “central” objects in a particular application
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Manipulating XML
Sometimes: Need to restructure an XML document Or simply need to retrieve certain parts that
satisfy a constraint, e.g.: All books All books by author XYZ
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Document Object Model (DOM)vs. Queries
Build a DOM tree (as we saw earlier) and access via Java (etc.) DOMNode object DOM objects have methods like “getFirstChild()”,
“getNextSibling” Common way of traversing the tree Can also modify the DOM tree – alter the XML – via
insertAfter(), etc.
Alternate approach: a query language Define some sort of a template describing traversals from
the root of the directed graph In XML, the basis of this template is called an XPath
Can also declare some constraints on the values you want The XPath returns a node set of matches
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XPaths
In its simplest form, an XPath is like a path in a file system:/mypath/subpath/*/morepath
The XPath returns a node set representing the XML nodes (and their subtrees) at the end of the path
XPaths can have node tests at the end, returning only particular node types, e.g., text(), processing-instruction(), comment(), element(), attribute()
XPath is fundamentally an ordered language: it can query in order-aware fashion, and it returns nodes in order
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Sample XML<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <dblp> <mastersthesis mdate="2002-01-03" key="ms/Brown92"> <author>Kurt P. Brown</author> <title>PRPL: A Database Workload Specification Language</title> <year>1992</year> <school>Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison</school> </mastersthesis> <article mdate="2002-01-03" key="tr/dec/SRC1997-018"> <editor>Paul R. McJones</editor> <title>The 1995 SQL Reunion</title> <journal>Digital System Research Center Report</journal> <volume>SRC1997-018</volume> <year>1997</year> <ee>db/labs/dec/SRC1997-018.html</ee> <ee>http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/</ee> </article>
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XML Data Model VisualizedRoot
?xml dblp
mastersthesis article
mdate key
author title year school editor title yearjournal volume eeee
mdatekey
2002…
ms/Brown92
Kurt P….
PRPL…
1992
Univ….
2002…
tr/dec/…
Paul R.
The…
Digital…
SRC…
1997
db/labs/dec
http://www.
attributeroot
p-i element
text
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Some Example XPath Queries
/dblp/mastersthesis/title /dblp/*/editor //title //title/text()
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Context Nodes and Relative Paths
XPath has a notion of a context node: it’s analogous to a current directory “.” represents this context node “..” represents the parent node We can express relative paths:
subpath/sub-subpath/../.. gets us back to the context node
By default, the document root is the context node
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Predicates – Filtering Operations
A predicate allows us to filter the node set based on selection-like conditions over sub-XPaths:
/dblp/article[title = “Paper1”]
which is equivalent to:
/dblp/article[./title/text() = “Paper1”]
because of type coercion. What does this do:
/dblp/article[@key = “123” and ./title/text() = “Paper1”
and ./author/*/element()]
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Axes: More Complex Traversals
Thus far, we’ve seen XPath expressions that go down the tree (and up one step) But we might want to go up, left, right, etc. These are expressed with so-called axes:
self::path-step child::path-step parent::path-step descendant::path-step ancestor::path-step descendant-or-self::path-step ancestor-or-self::path-
step preceding-sibling::path-step following-sibling::path-step preceding::path-step following::path-step
The previous XPaths we saw were in “abbreviated form”
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Users of XPath
XML Schema uses simple XPaths in defining keys and uniqueness constraints
XLink and XPointer, hyperlinks for XML
XSLT – useful for converting from XML to other representations (e.g., HTML, PDF, SVG)
XQuery – useful for restructuring an XML document or combining multiple documents Might well turn into the “glue” between Web Services,
etc.