Authors: Mengchi Liu, Shijun Li, Wanxia Wei
Tags: 2004, conceptual modeling
How to deal with the heterogeneous structures of XML documents, identify XML data instances, solve conflicts, and effectively merge XML documents to obtain complete information is a challenge. In this paper, we define a merging operation over XML documents that can merge two XML documents with different structures. It is similar to a full outer join in relational algebra. We design an algorithm for this operation. In addition, we propose a method for merging XML elements and handling typical conflicts. Finally, we present a merge template XML file that can support recursive processing and merging of XML elements.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-30464-7_22
