[jdom-interest] fusing xml files

[J. Albers]

Step 1. Use an ontology in OWL format to determine which tags are related
and how related they are.

Any idea how this could be done? anyone? I searched the internet for
information on the OWL format, didn;t find very much...

Grtz, Joachim.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Brenner" <mikeb at mitre.org>
To: "J. Albers" <jalbers at cs.uu.nl>; <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] fusing xml files


> Step 1. Use an ontology in OWL format to determine which tags are related
and how related they are.
> Step 2. Weight each of the relationships (arrows) in the ontology) with a
number.
> Step 3. Create a semantic distance metric by walking the OWL tree, adding
up the
> weights of the branches you must travel to get from each tag to each other
tag.
> Step 4. Sort the tag pairs in reverse order of increasing semantic
distance.
> Step 5. Use JDOM to read the first xml file into a HashMap of HashMaps of
HashMaps.
> Step 6. Same for the second xml file.
> Step 7. Using the tag pair with the least semantic weight (closest
distance to each other),
> ask the user's permission to merge that pair. If given, carry out a simple
> recursive merge loop (use the algorithm in Dijkstra's Discipline of
Programming
> for the merge loop, and recursively walk all the children of the HashMap
of HashMaps
> for the recursive part) to bring together those tags.
> Step 8. Continue through all the tag pairs.
>
> > "J. Albers" wrote:
> > What i'm trying to make is some application that takes 2 XML files and
tries to fuse them together semi-automatically. So the elements that are the
same get fused right away, and then the rest of the elements from the files
is listed, and one can select the elements that are the same but have
different names in different files and fuse them.
>
>
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