Catalog-Based Conversion from Relational Database into XML Schema (XSD)
Where the people are in the age of information revolution, exchange information and transport data effectively among various sectors of government, commercial, service and industrial, etc., the uses of a new databases model to support this trend has become very important because inability of traditional databases models to support it. eXtensible Markup Language (XML) considers a new standard model for data interchange through internet and mobiles devices networks, it has become a common language to exchange and share the data of traditional models in easy and inexpensive ways. In this paper, the authors propose a new technique to convert the relational database contents and schema into XML schema (XSD- XML Schema Definition), the main idea of the technique is extracting relational database catalog using Structured Query Language (SQL).