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A corrector takes an invalid XML file F as input and produces a valid file F′ which is not far from F when F is ε –close to its DTD, using the classical Tree Edit distance between a tree T and a language L defined by a DTD or a tree-automaton. We show how testers and correctors for regular trees can be used to estimate distances between a document and a set of DTDs, a useful operation to rank XML documents.
We describe the implementation of a linear time corrector using the Xerces parser and present test data for various DTDs comparing the parsing and correction time. We propose a generalization to homomorphic DTDs.
Work supported by ACI Sécurité Informatique: VERA of the French Ministry of Research.
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Boobna, U., de Rougemont, M. (2004). Correctors for XML Data. In: Bellahsène, Z., Milo, T., Rys, M., Suciu, D., Unland, R. (eds) Database and XML Technologies. XSym 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3186. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30081-6_8
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