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XSLTGen: A System for Automatically Generating XML Transformations Via Semantic Mappings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((JODS,volume 3870))

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XML is rapidly emerging as a dominant standard for representing and exchanging information. The ability to transform and present data in XML is crucial and XSLT is a relatively recent programming language, specially designed to support this activity. Despite its utility, however, XSLT is widely considered a difficult language to learn.

In this paper, we present a novel system called XSLTGen, an automatic XSLT Generator. This system automatically generates an XSLT stylesheet, given a source XML document and a desired output HTML or XML document. It allows users to become familiar with and learn XSLT stylesheets, based solely on their knowledge of XML or HTML. Our method for automatically generating XSLT transformations is based on the use of semantic mappings between the input and output documents. We show how such mappings can be first discovered and then employed to create XSLT stylesheets. The results of our experiments show that XSLTGen works well with a number of different varieties of XML and HTML documents.

Parts of results of this paper appeared in [30].

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    Stefano Spaccapietra

  2. Informatica e Automazione, Università Roma Tre, Via Vasca Navale 79, 00146, Roma, Italy

    Paolo Atzeni

  3. Computer Science Department, UCLA, 90095, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Wesley W. Chu

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universitá di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Ariosto 25, 00185, Roma, Italy

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  5. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Waworuntu, S., Bailey, J. (2006). XSLTGen: A System for Automatically Generating XML Transformations Via Semantic Mappings. In: Spaccapietra, S., Atzeni, P., Chu, W.W., Catarci, T., Sycara, K.P. (eds) Journal on Data Semantics V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3870. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11617808_4

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