International Business Machines Corporation

Pratibha Jamdagneya Sharma

Hovey Raymond Strong

Ravi Mani

Joerg Meyer

Transforming a user-supplied DTD satisfying a first XML grammar into a PDTD satisfying a second XML grammar, including converting DTD declarations of alternate content to sequences, converting DTD declarations of optional content to mandatory content, converting DTD declarations of imbedded sequences to subsequences, and demoting attribute definitions of DTD elements having attributes to children of the DTD elements having attributes. Embodiments include converting recursions into repetitions, demoting imbedded compound repetitions from element declarations having imbedded compound repetitions, and demoting imbedded leaves from elements having imbedded leaves.

Tree construction for XML to XML document transformation

Graphical specification of an XML to XML transformation rule, including receiving a user's selection of a user-selected, optionally ambiguous, target leaf node, from a target tree of an initial target context, the target leaf node representing a target XML element to be mapped by the transformation rule; if the target leaf node is ambiguous, disambiguating the target leaf node; and adding the target leaf node to the transformation rule. Embodiments typically include receiving a user's selection of at least one user-selected, optionally ambiguous, source leaf node, from a source tree of an initial source context, wherein the source leaf node represents a source XML element to be mapped to the target leaf node by the transformation rule; if the source leaf node is ambiguous, disambiguating the source leaf node; and adding the user-selected source leaf node to the transformation rule.

Graphical specification of XML to XML transformation rules

Transforming a source XML document satisfying a source DTD into a target XML document satisfying a target DTD, transforming the source XML document into a source document tree, where the source XML document satisfies a first XML grammar and the source document tree satisfies a second XML grammar; converting the source document tree into a target document tree satisfying the second XML grammar; and transforming the target document tree into the target XML document, wherein the target XML document satisfies the first XML grammar.

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Pratibha Jamdagneya Sharma