An approach to XML path matching

  • Authors:
  • Alexander R. Vinson;Carlos A. Heuser;Altigran S. da Silva;Edleno S. de Moura

  • Affiliations:
  • UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil;UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil;UFAM, Manaus, Brazil;UFAM, Manaus, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM international workshop on Web information and data management
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In applications that accomplish XML data integration and XML instance querying, the problem of XML path matching plays a central role. This paper presents an approach for matching XML paths that consists of (1) PathSim, a similarity function specifically designed for matching XML paths and (2) a set of pre-processing functions to be applied to XML paths that are to be compared by a similarity function. The reported experiments demonstrate that PathSim achieves matches of higher quality than a similarity function for XML paths found in literature. The experiments further show that matches of higher quality are achieved when the proposed pre-processing functions are employed.