An efficient algorithm to compute differences between structured documents

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 965-979

  Lee, Kyong Ho ^a   Choy, Yoon Chul ^a   Cho, Sung Bae ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Change detection; Difference computation; Edit operation; Edit script; SGML; Structured document; XML

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SGML; TREES (MATHEMATICS); XML;

CHANGE DETECTION; DIFFERENCE COMPUTATION; EDIT OPERATION; EDIT SCRIPTS; STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 4344572115     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2004.19     Document Type: Article

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