Comments: located on hadar ContactPerson: tdm4@cse.buffalo.edu Remote host: cooper.cse.buffalo.edu Remote ident: tdm4 ### Begin Citation ### Do not delete this line ### %R 2000-06 %U /projects/stock/cxml.ps %A McKernan, Timothy %A Jayaraman, Bharat %T CobWeb: Constrained XML for the Web %D May 19, 2000 %I Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SUNY Buffalo %K constraint xml database %X XML is helping to advance the notion of using the web as a large database. XML can help view, store, manipulate, and transfer semi-structured data that exist in files - often webpages. XML is being developed in part because of the recognized need for a less ad hoc method of handling data than HTML allows. In support of the idea that the web is to be treated like a database, we introduce constraints to XML. Constraints allow for more specific data definitions then XML currently supports, and these definitions may span across multiple webpages across the web. We also define more data types, so that declaring constraints can be more easily facilitated.