Research on Flexible Web Application Data Modeling Based on XML Database

Alone with web technologies has being used in many and many fields, a lot of enterprises have been upgrading their business application into web based systems. From both enterprises and web application providers’ point of view, all they need to design a web application flexible enough not only to adapt to the enterprises business changes, marketing change, but also to be easily customized the web applications for different deployments. While in order to satisfy to both these two targets, the flexible web application data modeling is one of the key problems. Here, by research on XML with templates and XML database technologies, from data concept model, logic model and physical model to illustrate a XML database based data modeling to improve web applications flexibility at design time.