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  *      Authors: Jivka Bojilova
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<TITLE>Metacat</TITLE>
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      <td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">The Metacat DOM</p></td>
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  <P>In the Metacat DOM implementation XML documents
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  are disassembled into their composite nodes. All nodes are stored as records
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  in the database tables. The structure of each XML document is preserved
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  by saving the parent-child relationship between the nodes.
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    <ul>
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    <li> Each XML document in the Metacat database starts with one root node of
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    type DOCUMENT. All other nodes in the document are its children.
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    The document node can
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    have multiple COMMENT or PI (processing instruction) nodes and only
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    one ELEMENT node. The element node is the root node of the document and will
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    be pointed to by all of its children.
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    <li> Each node is described as a single record in the <i>xml_nodes</i> table.
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    All nodes have a unique System ID (<i>nodeid</i>). Each node stores
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    the ID of
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    its direct parent (in <i>parentnodeid</i>), the ID of its documents root node
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    (in <i>rootnodeid</i>) and its Document ID (<i>docid</i>).
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    <li> Document attributes (such as docid, doctype, etc.) are stored in
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    the xml_documents table.
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    <li> Unimplemented DOM features:
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         <ul>
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         <li> Node types: Doctype, Entity, EntityReference, Notation.
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         <li> Persistant DOM interface. This would allow a DOM compliant
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         editor to work with an xml document in the database as if it were
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         in memory.
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         <li>Object Oriented representation of each node.
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  <P> <img alt="Entity Relationship Diagram of the Metacat DOM"  src="metacatdom.jpg">
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