Converting into pattern-based schemas: A formal approach
Antonina Dattolo, University of Napoli Federico II, Angelo Di Iorio, Silvia Duca, Antonio Angelo Feliziani, & Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna
Talk given by Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna
What can we do with a set of documents that we know nothing about (no schema, no display, no validation, no real search available)…look for regularities…
Basically it seems that what can you tell about a document based on knowledge of the structure of an XML document? And are there things that you can tell based on the punctuation within the context (is that a URI?, are those integers or strings?)
A reasonable rendering could be accomplished through this analysis of the regularities…it might be ‘wrong’ but at least it would be viewable to a ‘normal’ person who can read the content.
Paraphrase of Fabio: The arrogance of Schema designers is that they know more of the order of the document than the document editor. Does this mean that schema designers cannot expressis his/her sadistic and pedantic constraints on anyone? No…the document editors are ideal victims of the fantasies of the schema designer and can be forced to
- identify the fragments of the documents
- provide metadata
- add attribute values
