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Various advantages of XML such as flexibility and interoperability have given rise to a steady increase in the number of software documents using XML, and this growth has in turn necessitated new methods for systematically managing massive XML-based documents.
Unlike general documents of planar structure based on lines, documents in XML internally constitute a tree structure. Therefore, traditional version control techniques that recognize documents of planar structure are not suitable in handling hierarchically structured documents.
This paper proposes a new way of managing changes made in structured documents. While being a timestamp-based approach, the proposed method has the characteristics of maintaining version stamps for edges, rather than nodes in the tree structure, and only assigning version stamps when they are required.
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Park, G., Shin, W., Kim, K., Wu, C. (2004). Towards Efficient Management of Changes in XML-Based Software Documents. In: Ramamoorthy, C.V., Lee, R., Lee, K.W. (eds) Software Engineering Research and Applications. SERA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3026. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24675-6_13
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