Mapping paradigm for document transformation

  • Authors:
  • Arnaud Blouin;Olivier Beaudoux

  • Affiliations:
  • ESEO - GRI, Angers, France;ESEO - GRI, Angers, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Document engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Since the advent of XML, the ability to transform documents using transformation languages such as XSLT has become an important challenge. However, writing a transformation script (e.g. an XSLT stylesheet) is still an expert task. This paper proposes a simpler way to transform documents by defining a relation between two schemas expressed through our mapping language. And then by using a transformation process that applies the mapping instances of the schemas. Thus, a user only needs to focus on the mapping without having any knowledge about how a transformation language and its processor work. This paper outlines our mapping approach and language, and illustrates them with an example.