MAXDOR Model

This chapter gives a full description of the proposed model introduced by the authors. The new model is called MAXDOR for mapping XML document into relational database. The description includes mathematical concepts that are used in this model, the labelling method used to label XML document and identify its content, and the design framework used to maintain the document structure, parent-child, ancestor-descendant, and siblings relations among document contents. It also presents a set of algorithms for mapping, reconstructing, updating, and retrieving XML documents