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A Framework of Summarizing XML Documents with Schemas

Author Teaching and Research Section of Computer, Army Off icer Academy, China 2School of Science, Anhui Agricultural University, China,

Keywords #XML #document summarization #schema #key #functiona l dependency

Abstract eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has become one of the de facto standards of data exchange and representation in many applications. An XML document is usually to o complex and large to understand and use for a hum an being. A summarized XML document of the original document is useful in such cases. Three standards are given to evaluate the final summarized XML document: document size, information content, and information importance. A framework of summarizing an XML document based both on the document itself and the schema is given, which applies schema to summarize XML documents because there are many important semantic and structural information implied by the schema. In our framework, redundant data are first removed by abnormal functi onal dependencies and schema structure. Then tags a nd values of the XML document are summarized based on the document i tself and schema. Our framework is a semi-automatic approach which can help users to summarize an XML document in the sense that some parameters must be specified by the users. Experiments show that the framework can make the summarized XML document has a good balance of document size, information content, and information importance comparing with the origi nal one.

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