Guangming Xing
ABSTRACT
In this paper, we present an algorithm to find a sequence of top-down edit operations with minimum cost that transforms an XML document such that it conforms to a schema. It is shown that the algorithm runs in O(p x log p x n), where p is the size of the schema(grammar) and n is the size of the XML document (tree). We have also shown that edit distance with restricted top-down edit operations can be computed the same way.We will also show how to use the edit distances in document classification. Experimental studies have shown that our methods are effective in structure-oriented classification for both real and synthesized data sets.
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- Computing edit distances between an XML document and a schema and its application in document classification
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