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In many application scenarios, for example in design or media production processes, several authors have to work cooperatively on the same project and consequently on the same data. In this context, a frequently used data format is XML. To enable cooperative authoring of shared XML graph structures, several requirements have to be fulfilled, e.g., early visibility of updates, multi-directional information flow, and processing data in parallel. Most transaction models proposed in the literature are hardly applicable in this context. In this paper, we propose a novel transaction model based on multi-level transactions and dynamic actions that meets these requirements. We describe the transaction model as well as its formal properties and discuss issues such as synchronization and logging.
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Gropengießer, F., Hose, K. & Sattler, KU. An extended transaction model for cooperative authoring of XML data . Comp. Sci. Res. Dev. 24, 85–100 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-009-0097-1
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