Versioning XML-based office documents

Rönnau, Sebastian; Borghoff, Uwe M.

doi:10.1007/s11042-009-0271-2

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“…by different encodings, namespace resolutions, or attribute orderings. Details of the normalization have been published before [5,6].…”

Section: Xml Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To get realistic results, we have analyzed 66 documents, covering text documents, spreadsheets, and Web pages. The text documents were taken from the OpenOffice documentation repository 5 , the source of the spreadsheets is a public repository for financial calculations 6 . The Web pages cover common blogs, major auction sites, news sites, and governmental sites 7 .…”

Section: Node Distribution and Similaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Figure 2 shows the node distribution on a 5 http://documentation.openoffice.org. 6 http://www.exinfm.com/free_spreadsheets.html. 7 Among others, we have analyzed nytimes.com, ebay.com, cia.gov, and theappleblog.com.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Here, we only give a brief overview of our merge algorithm. For a detailed description, please refer to our earlier work [5,6].…”

Section: Xcc Patch: Merging Document Versionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Here, we focus on the differencing aspect, including the analysis that has led us to our design. The other aspects have been published before [5,6] and are briefly described to sketch the complete approach. This is an extended version of a previous paper [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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XCC: change control of XML documents

Rönnau

Borghoff

2010

Comput Sci Res Dev

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XML-based documents play a major role in modern information architectures and their corresponding workflows. In this context, the ability to identify and represent differences between two versions of a document is essential, as well as the merging of document versions resulting from parallel editing processes.Different approaches try to meet these challenges using operational transformation or document annotation. In both approaches, the changes are tracked during editing, which requires corresponding editing applications. In the context of software development, however, a state-based approach is common. Here, versions are compared and merged using external tools, called diff and patch. This allows the users for editing documents without being tightened to editing tools. Approaches exist that are able to compare XML documents, but lack a corresponding merge capability.In this article, we present a comprehensive framework that allows for comparing and merging of XML documents using a state-based approach. Its design is based on an analysis of XML documents and their modification patterns. The framework is built on top of a context-oriented delta model. We present a diff algorithm that appears to be highly efficient in terms of speed and delta quality. The patch algorithm is able to merge document versions efficiently and reliably. The efficiency and the reliability of our approach are verified using a competitive test scenario.

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“…by different encodings, namespace resolutions, or attribute orderings. Details of the normalization have been published before [5,6].…”

Section: Xml Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Node Distribution and Similaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Node Distribution and Similaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Here, we only give a brief overview of our merge algorithm. For a detailed description, please refer to our earlier work [5,6].…”

Section: Xcc Patch: Merging Document Versionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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XCC: change control of XML documents

Rönnau

Borghoff

2010

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A life cycle model of XML documents

Salminen

Jauhiainen

Nurmeksela

2014

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Bridging the gap between tracking and detecting changes in XML

Ciancarini

Iorio

Marchetti³

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Softw Pract Exp

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Summary There are two main approaches to manage changes in XML documents, change‐tracking and diff. Change‐tracking tools, which record edit actions while they are performed on the source document, are able to capture the exact editing process. That is much more difficult for diff algorithms, which have to reconstruct it by comparing two different versions. Interestingly, these algorithms process both text‐centric and data‐centric XML documents the same way. In this paper, we show that more accurate, clear, and human‐readable results can be achieved on text‐centric resources, by employing specific models and algorithms. We describe and discuss a specialized diff algorithm for such a class of documents. We also compare a Java implementation of the algorithm, named JNDiff, with other general‐purpose or data‐oriented diff tools, focusing on the quality of their output. Copyright © 2014 Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Versioning XML-based office documents

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

XCC: change control of XML documents

XCC: change control of XML documents

A life cycle model of XML documents

Bridging the gap between tracking and detecting changes in XML

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