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Manoeuvring multi-dimensional language data : a code shuttle with XML and database-operation functions
Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik); Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Matthee, Machdel C.
The article focuses on the conversion of linguistic data between an XML
data cube and a three-dimensional array structure in Visual Basic 6 in
order to eventually facilitate data access and manipulation. After a short
consideration of the structures of the VB6 and XML databanks,
conversion between the two is discussed (“round-tripping”), as well as
essential database functions (create, read, update and delete) that may be
performed on the linguistic data cube. The suggested software tool,
therefore, acts as a “code shuttle” (a programme that moves data to and
from two different storage structures) with added elementary database
functionalities. Linguistic data from the Hebrew text of Genesis 1:1-2:3 is
used to demonstrate the data operations.
Description:
This article is a revised and extended version of a short paper, “Round-tripping
Biblical Hebrew linguistic data”, read at the IRMA 2007 conference, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, May 19-23, 2007. It is an edited version of a chapter in
an unpublished doctoral thesis (Kroeze 2008:123-145).