ROLAP based data warehouse schema to XML schema conversion

Abstract

Data Warehouse is one of the powerful tools for analytical processing. XML on the other hand is widely used to handle data in web environment. XML to data warehouse integration is a subject of interest for the business organization to use the semi-structured XML for analytical processing. However, in this research work we approached the problem in reverse direction. Here we generate equivalent XML schema from the existing data warehouse schema for an organization which does not has the XML platform to manage the web data. The proposed reverse engineering framework uses one of the existing methodologies of converting the XML schema to data warehouse schema. However, we have applied it in a reverse approach. Moreover we have established a formalism to prove the soundness and correctness of both the conversion mechanisms.