On Hidden Disorder in XML Tags

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Abstract

Automatic integration of structured and semi-structured data has been a goal of nearly thirty years of integration research. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) integration attempts have not succeeded either. The lack of progress demonstrates early assumptions were naïve. This paper will show XML schemas possess natural language characteristics that pose significant barriers to achieving full automatic integration of semi-structured data. This aspect of XML evolution has not been addressed in the literature. XML exhibits many of the same ambiguities as natural language. Automating XML integration puts forward a challenge similar in magnitude to automated natural language translation efforts. Correct and complete integration needs to satisfy meaning-preservation constraints; e.g., a mapping function that is invertible, proof preserving, vocabulary preserving and structure preserving. Natural language characteristics in XML can theoretically be utilized to predict and explain the level of XML automated integration possible.

Identifier

85139034131 (Scopus)

Publication Title

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems Amcis 2004

First Page

43

Last Page

48

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