Information Preserving XML Schema Embedding

Summary: Formalizes information preservation in XML via a novel schema-embedding over DTD graphs, mapping a source edge to a target path. Instance-level embeddings guarantee conformance and preservation; NP-complete, but efficient heuristics yield a practical XML mapping approach. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h3173738ba36fabad
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.6928321e-05
Overall Rank: 6,736 | 54.72%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Philip Bohannon (AT&T)
2. Wenfei Fan (AT&T; University of Edinburgh)
3. Michael Flaster (AT&T)
4. P. P. S. Narayan (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bohannon_vldb05,
        title = {{Information Preserving XML Schema Embedding}},
        author = {Bohannon, Philip and Fan, Wenfei and Flaster, Michael and Narayan, P. P. S.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        volume = {31},
        pages = {85--96},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
793	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00013942384
2,849	Nested Mappings: Schema Mapping Reloaded	2006	VLDB	7.942171e-05
7,178	Designing Information-Preserving Mapping Schemes for XML	2005	VLDB	5.5932941e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
24	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00055043581
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00037549176
86	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00035810622
238	Complexity of Answering Queries Using Materialized Views	1998	PODS	0.00023591683
269	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022620777
296	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00021867512
425	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018486061
465	Using Schema Matching to Simplify Heterogeneous Data Translation	1998	VLDB	0.00017785121
899	Mapping Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Semantics and Algorithmic Issues	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013186809
1,578	SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems	1996	VLDB	0.00010187094
1,595	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.00010131081
1,759	Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management	2003	SIGMOD	9.7107065e-05
1,976	XPath Satisfiability in the Presence of DTDs	2005	PODS	9.2797174e-05
2,554	Peer Data Exchange	2005	PODS	8.3056046e-05
3,756	XML with Data Values: Typechecking Revisited	2001	PODS	7.0446245e-05
3,799	Lossless Regular Views	2002	PODS	7.015401e-05
5,982	Query-Sensitive Embeddings	2005	SIGMOD	5.9276742e-05
7,178	Designing Information-Preserving Mapping Schemes for XML	2005	VLDB	5.5932941e-05

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