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An Algorithm Generating Edit Scripts for XML Documents  

Lee, Suk-Kyoon (Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Dankook University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.48, no.1, 2011 , pp. 80-89 More about this Journal
Abstract
While detecting changes in XML documents has emerged as a major research area, the level of research on edit scripts, which are the result of the change detection, is not far from satisfactory. In this paper, we present X-treeESgen, the algorithm generating edit scripts used in X-treeDiff+, a change detection algorithm for XML documents. X-treeESgen shows the time complexity of O(n), and support move and copy operations in addition to the basic set that is update, insert, and delete operations. Note that no other change detection algorithm provide all the operations. Also, since the process of generating edit scripts in X-treeESgen is designed independent of the process of matching, various tuning techniques may be applied.
Keywords
XML; diff; edit script; change detection;
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