XML Transformation: Matching & Reconciliation

ABSTRACT

Interacting applications must exchange or share data, often XML (eXtensible Markup Language) files, call one another's interfaces, or exchange messages. Especially when integration was not anticipated, the details provided by one application might be different from those expected by the other. When applications share common content, it might be represented in different forms. Our research on Matching and Reconciliation (M&R) is aimed at providing semi-automatic support for matching up corresponding elements of different definitions of material to be shared, exchanged or integrated, and reconciling differences between them. The Visual XML Transformation Tool performs simple M&R for XML Document Type Definitions (DTDs). The user is able to construct an integrated (output) DTD from multiple input DTDs. The tool generates an XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) script which, given input XML documents conforming to the input DTDs, generates an XML document conforming to the output DTD in accordance with the user's choices for integration. It is part of IBM's Electronic Business Application Framework (e-BAF) and is available on alphaWorks.

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