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Publications and source records attributed to Dan Suciu.
XBrain is an application that facilitates data exchange by dynamically publishing relational data over the web in XML format. In the current work we further enhanced its functionality through automatic query generation to aid the human users. We also extended its visualization tools by developing them into generalized XML visualization web services.
This paper discusses an approach to exporting relational data in XML format for data exchange over the web. We describe the first real-world application of SilkRoute, a middleware program that dynamically converts existing relational data to a user-defined XML DTD. The application, called XBrain, wraps SilkRoute in a Java Server Pages framework, thus permitting a web-based XQuery interface to a legacy relational database. The application is demonstrated as a query interface to the University of Washington Brain Project's Language Map Experiment Management System, which is used to manage data about language organization in the brain.