Composable XML Integration Grammars
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Overview: The proliferation of XML as a standard for data representation and exchange in diverse, next-generation Web applications has created an emphatic need for effective XML data-integration tools. In this paper, the authors proposes a novel formalism, XML Integration Grammars (XIGs), for specifying DTD-directed integration of XML data. Abstractly, an XIG maps data from multiple XML sources to a target XML document that conforms to a predefined DTD. An XIG extracts source XML data via queries expressed in a fragment of XQuery, and controls target document generation with tree-valued attributes and the target DTD.

