Matching methods for semantic annotation-based XML document transformations
Marcin Szymczak, Julius Koepke · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2012
The widely adoption of XML as an exchange format provides syntactic interoperability between different communication partners. However, in a heterogenous communication environment it is common, that different partners use different schemas for the transferred messages. This requires transformations between the different partners. The creation of such transformations is typically manual work, which is an error-prone and tedious task. The main problem to achieve a mapping between heterogenous schemas is the matching of the schemas according to their semantics. Semantic annotations can be used to explicitly define the semantics and can therefore, support the creation of schema matchings. In this paper, we will present a schema matching and mapping solution that maps heterogenous schemas based on their semantic annotations and allows the automatic creation of transformation scripts.