Slicing XML Documents

Program slicing is a well-known technique to extract the program statements that (potentially) affect the values computed at some point of interest. In this work, we introduce a novel slicing method for XML documents. Essentially, given an XML document (which is valid w.r.t. some DTD), we produce a new XML document (a slice) that contains the relevant information in the original XML document according to some criterion. Furthermore, we also output a new DTD such that the computed slice is valid w.r.t. this DTD. A prototype implementation of the XML slicer has been undertaken. Key words: XML, DTD, Program Slicing.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: ENTCS
• Authors: Josep Silva
• Keywords: ENTCS 2006, Program Statements, Well-known Technique, XML Document