Multidimensional Modeling using UML and XML
Sergio Luján‐Mora · 2002
Multidimensional (MD) modeling is the foundation of data warehouses, MD databases, and OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications. In the past years, there have been some proposals for representing the main MD properties at the conceptual level providing their own notations. In this paper, we present an extension of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), by means of stereotypes, to elegantly represent main structural and dynamic MD properties at the conceptual level. Moreover, we use the extensible Markup Language (XML) to store MD models. Then, we apply the extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), that allow us to automatically generate HTML pages from XML documents, thereby supporting different presentations of the same MD model easily.