A Web Service Architecture for Bidirectional XML Updating

Abstract. We propose a Web service architecture for achieving bidirectional XML updating. The update mechanism exploits the power of bidirectioanl transformations so that users can update XML data by editing a view that is generated by some transformation of the XML data. This architecture consists of three tiers: data viewer clients, a bidirectional transformation engine, and some content servers accessible through the Internet. Due to the use of standard Web service technologies, data viewer clients and contents servers can be easily replaced by the ones chosen by users. Users can use this architecture to implement their own applications that exploit the power of bidirectional transformations without the burden of installing and maintaining the bidirectional language package.