  This paper proposes a set of tools to help dealing with XML database
evolution. It aims at establishing a multi-system environment where a global
integrated system works in harmony with some local original ones, allowing data
translation in both directions and, thus, activities on both levels. To deal
with schemas, we propose an algorithm that computes a mapping capable of
obtaining a global schema which is a conservative extension of original local
schemas. The role of the obtained mapping is then twofold: it ensures schema
evolution, via composition and inversion, and it guides the construction of a
document translator, allowing automatic data adaptation w.r.t. type evolution.
This paper applies, extends and put together some of our previous
contributions.

Databases