Mining flexible association rules from XML
Elisabetta Caneva, Barbara Oliboni, Elisa Quintarelli · 2009
The role of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is becoming very important in the research fields focusing on the representation, the exchange, and the integration of information coming from different data sources and containing information related to various contexts such as, for example, medical and biological data. Extracting knowledge from XML datasets is an important issue that may be difficult because of the semistructured intrinsic nature of XML; indeed documents can have an implicit and irregular structure, not defined in advance.