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The processing of XML documents often includes creation and validation. These two operations are typically performed in two different nodes within a computer network that do not correlate with each other. The process of creation is also…
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML. Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange…
Formal languages let us define the textual representation of data with precision. Formal grammars, typically in the form of BNF-like productions, describe the language syntax, which is then annotated for syntax-directed translation and…
XrML is becoming a popular language in industry for writing software licenses. The semantics for XrML is implicitly given by an algorithm that determines if a permission follows from a set of licenses. We focus on a fragment of the language…
We present xDGDL, an approach towards a concise but comprehensive Datagrid description language. Our framework is based on the portable XML language and allows to store syntactical and semantical information together with arbitrary files.…
We consider unordered XML, where the relative order among siblings is ignored, and propose two simple yet practical schema formalisms: disjunctive multiplicity schemas (DMS), and its restriction, disjunction-free multiplicity schemas (MS).…
This document discusses the definition of the Parameter Description Language (PDL). In this language parameters are described in a rigorous data model. With no loss of generality, we will represent this data model using XML. It intends to…
D2d is an input format which allows experienced authors to create type correct xml text objects with minimal disturbance of the creative flow of writing. This paper contains the complete specification of the parsing process, including the…
Schema Matching, i.e. the process of discovering semantic correspondences between concepts adopted in different data source schemas, has been a key topic in Database and Artificial Intelligence research areas for many years. In the past, it…
In this article we present the prototype of a framework capable of producing, with linear complexity, uniformly random XML documents with respect to a given RELAX NG grammar. The generation relies on powerful combinatorial methods together…
Data validation is becoming more and more important with the ever-growing amount of data being consumed and transmitted by systems over the Internet. It is important to ensure that the data being sent is valid as it may contain entry…
An XML framework for concept description is given, based upon the fact that the tree structure of XML implies the logical structure of concepts as defined by attributional calculus. Especially, the attribute-value representation is…
Many important forms of data are stored digitally in XML format. Errors can occur in the textual content of the data in the fields of the XML. Fixing these errors manually is time-consuming and expensive, especially for large amounts of…
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) provides a powerful and flexible means of encoding and exchanging data. As it turns out, its main advantage as an encoding format (namely, its requirement that all open and close markup tags are present…
XML is based on two essential aspects: the modelization of data in a tree like structure and the separation between the information itself and the way it is displayed. XML structures are easily serializable. The separation between an…
Currently, XML is a format widely used. In the context of computer science teaching, it is necessary to introduce students to this format and, especially, at its eco-system. We have developed a model to support the teaching of XML. We…
First we define a unification grammar formalism called the Tree Homomorphic Feature Structure Grammar. It is based on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), but has a strong restriction on the syntax of the equations. We then show that this…
We define XPathLog as a Datalog-style extension of XPath. XPathLog provides a clear, declarative language for querying and manipulating XML whose perspectives are especially in XML data integration. In our characterization, the formal…
Various query languages have been proposed to extract and restructure information in XML documents. These languages, usually claiming to be declarative, mainly consider the conjunctive relationships among data elements. In order to present…
We present a taxonomy of the variability mechanisms offered by modeling languages. The definition of a formal language encompasses a syntax and a semantic domain as well as the mapping that relates them, thus language variabilities are…