Detecting Changes in XML Documents

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Detecting Changes in XML Documents (2001)

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by Gregory Cobena , Serge Abiteboul , Amelie Marian

Venue:	In ICDE
Citations:	159 - 3 self

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Cobena01detectingchanges,
    author = {Gregory Cobena and Serge Abiteboul and Amelie Marian},
    title = {Detecting Changes in XML Documents},
    booktitle = {In ICDE},
    year = {2001},
    pages = {41--52}
}

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Abstract

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 synthetic data that confirm the analysis. Since this problem is NPhard, the linear time is obtained by trading some quality. We present experiments (again on synthetic data) that show that the output of our algorithm is reasonably close to the "optimal" in terms of quality. Finally we present experiments on a small sample of XML pages found on the Web. 1

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xml document present experiment diff algorithm synthetic data xml data small sample move operation xml specific information xyleme project linear time linear time v change control massive volume memory space performance analysis previous algorithm quadratic time xml page exact matchings dynamic warehouse new version

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