An abstraction-based approach to measuring the structural similarity between two unordered XML documents

  • Authors:
  • Marco Mesiti;Elisa Bertino;Giovanna Guerrini

  • Affiliations:
  • Università di Milano, Italy;Università di Milano, Italy;Università di Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ISICT '03 Proceedings of the 1st international symposium on Information and communication technologies
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Measuring the structural similarity between two document-centric XML documents is a well-known problem. Many approaches have been proposed that, by fixing constraints in the evaluation of similarity, compute the similarity with polynomial time complexity. Despite this huge activity for document-centric XML documents, no approaches have been presented so far for data-centric XML documents (i.e., XML documents for which order among elements is not relevant) mainly because this problem is, in general, NP-complete. In this paper we propose an approach for measuring the structural similarity between two data-centric XML documents that, when the structure of elements with the same label is not heterogenous, is polynomial.