Evaluation of OCL Expressions over XML Data Model

Complex applications can benefit, greatly from using conceptual models and Model Driven Architecture during development., deployment, and runtime. XML applications are not. different.. In this paper, we examine the possibility of using Object.Constraint Language (OCL) for expressing constraints over a conceptual model for XML data. We go through the different, classes of OCL expression and show how each class can be translated into XPat.li constructs. Subsequently we show how the constraints can be checked using Schemat.ron. We introduce a function library OclX, which provides constructs necessary to translate those OCL constructs that have no counterpart, in XPat.li. With our tool. it. is possible to check validity of OCL constraints in XML data.