AN AUTOMATIC GENERATION METHOD OF DIFFERENTIAL XSLT STYLESHEET FROM TWO XML DOCUMENTS

Takeshi Kato, Hidetoshi Ueno, Norihiro Ishikawa

2005

Abstract

We propose a differential XSLT stylesheet generation method for arbitrary pairs of XML contents. It is possible to obtain the revised XML document by supplying the XSLT stylesheet with the differential data to the original XML document. Comparing with sending whole revised XML document, the original XML document can be updated by sending less information, the differential data. This paper introduces a difference detection algorithm based on the DOM tree and a difference representation method that permits the expression of difference information. We also discuss a new XSLT function for the proposed method. We also introduce prototype software implemented based on proposed method and evaluation result that shows the effectiveness of our method. An experiment shows that the proposed method is suitable for updating XML contents, especially for web service in the costly mobile network.

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Kato T., Ueno H. and Ishikawa N. (2005). AN AUTOMATIC GENERATION METHOD OF DIFFERENTIAL XSLT STYLESHEET FROM TWO XML DOCUMENTS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 972-8865-20-1, pages 5-12. DOI: 10.5220/0001229300050012


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@conference{webist05,
author={Takeshi Kato and Hidetoshi Ueno and Norihiro Ishikawa},
title={AN AUTOMATIC GENERATION METHOD OF DIFFERENTIAL XSLT STYLESHEET FROM TWO XML DOCUMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2005},
pages={5-12},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001229300050012},
isbn={972-8865-20-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - AN AUTOMATIC GENERATION METHOD OF DIFFERENTIAL XSLT STYLESHEET FROM TWO XML DOCUMENTS
SN - 972-8865-20-1
AU - Kato T.
AU - Ueno H.
AU - Ishikawa N.
PY - 2005
SP - 5
EP - 12
DO - 10.5220/0001229300050012