Articles and Papers
DeltaXML researchers and developers provide technical leadership for the XML community on change control by presenting and publising their work at conferences.
The following articles and papers have been made available by their respective publishers:
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"A Generalized Grammar for Three-way XML Synchronization". This paper proposes a general synchronization grammar which can describe synchronization rule sets. Presented at XML 2005, held November 14-18, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Paper: PDF, HTML
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"Powering Pipelines with JAXP". This paper presents classification schemes, diagrams and tables which try to explain the pipeline construction process. Presented at XML 2004, held November 15-19, 2004, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Paper: PDF, HTML Slides: PDF
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"Conflict Resolution in XML - Forms For All".This paper looks at the use of XML forms of various types to reduce the drudgery involved and to take advantage some of the greatest strengths of XML, using pipelining and easily-understood representations to allow a decision-maker to work with minimal drag. Presented at XML 2004, held November 15-19, 2004, Washington, D.C., USA. Paper: PDF, HTML.
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"Beyond Babel - Simplifying Translation with XML", Presented at XML Europe 2004, April 2004. Paper: PDF, HTML
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"Russian Dolls and XML: Handling Multiple Versions of XML in XML. This paper looks at the requirements and proposes a format for storing multiple XML documents within a single XML archive document, XML 2003, Dec, 2003, USA. Paper: PDF, HTML.
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"Change Control for XML: Do It Right". This paper provides a general introduction to change management in XML. Presented at XML Europe 2003 in the vendor stream. Paper: PDF.
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"Merging XML files: a new approach providing intelligent merge of XML data sets". This paper describes both 2-way merging of XML files and 3-way merging when two files that are variations of a single base file need to be merged, Presented at XML Europe 2002, Barcelona, May 2002. Paper: PDF.
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"A Delta Format for XML: Identifying Changes in XML Files and Representing the Changes in XML". This paper goes into some of the background to DeltaXML and the general requirements that it addresses Presented at XML Europe 2001, Berlin, May 2001. Paper: HTML, PDF. Please note: DeltaXML has moved forward since this paper so it should be read as background material only.
The following papers and book chapters also contain information relevant to DeltaXML technology:
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"The XML Handbook" Charles F. Goldfarb, Paul Prescod, Prentice Hall PTR, 2004, ISBN: 0130497657. Chapter 33 "Managing Change in XML Content", draft submission: PDF.
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"A Comparative Study for XML Change Detection" Verso report number 221, INRIA, 2002. Grégory Cobéna, Talel Abdessalem and Yassine Hinnach. Paper: PDF A comparative study of the performance (speed and result quality) of DeltaXML, XYDiff and a number of other competing tools. (Unpublished 2004 update is also available)