An Investigative Approach on Improving Self Service Capablities Using XML

XML is used as the most widely technology for self service in the SAAS applications. By means of active rules, it becomes possible to generate or manipulate the content of an XML document as a reaction to changes that occur to XML information. In this paper, we introduced a new rule execute model in active class in the XML environment. We discussed the rule analysis theory and proposed an analysis approach, which can decide whether the rule sets can be terminated or not. Node, which formed the XML document, is instance of the active class. When the node is modified and the rule´s condition is satisfied, the rule´s action will be acted. There is no event listener with which applications often become inefficient and unmanageable when the number of triggers becomes large. In this paper we derive a recursion equation for each node that is modified in the cycle. Unfolding of the recursion equations and testing for the satisfiability are used to analyze the termination of the rule. Apart from the improved precision it can achieve, we are able to make statements about conditional termination properties of an ECA rule set.