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Detecting Changes in XML Documents

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Detecting Changes in XML Documents
We present a diff algorithm for XML data. This work is motivated by the support for change control in the context of the Xyleme project that is investigating dynamic warehouses capable of storing massive volume of XML data. Because of the context, our algorithm has to be very efficient in terms of speed and memory space even at the cost of some loss of "quality". Also, it considers, besides insertions, deletions and updates (standard in diffs), a move operation on subtrees that is essential in the context of XML. Intuitively, our diff algorithm uses signatures to match (large) subtrees that were left unchanged between the old and new versions. Such exact matchings are then possibly propagated to ancestors and descendants to obtain more matchings. It also uses XML specific information such as ID attributes. We provide a performance analysis of the algorithm. We show that it runs in average in linear time vs. quadratic time for previous algorithms. We present experiments on sy...
Gregory Cobena, Serge Abiteboul, Amélie Mar
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Type Conference
Year 2002
Where ICDE
Authors Gregory Cobena, Serge Abiteboul, Amélie Marian
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