“…In the realm of information systems, XML has been largely adopted as a semi-structured data model and XML schema as a semi-structured data modeling formalism (Abiteboul et al , 2011; Aiken and Allen, 2004; Chaudhri et al , 2003). In this context, although a lot of research work has been done on XML schema evolution (Klettke, 2007; Guerrini and Mesiti, 2008; Cavalieri et al , 2011; Domínguez et al , 2011; Nečaský et al , 2012; Amavi et al , 2014; Klímek et al , 2015) and on XML schema versioning (Dyreson et al , 2006; Brahmia and Bouaziz, 2008; Snodgrass et al , 2008; Malý et al , 2011; Baqasah et al , 2014; Brahmia et al , 2014a, 2016b, 2018a), none of such approaches has dealt with changes involving XML schema design styles.…”