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Two Zero-Watermark methods for XML documents

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As XML files are less redundant and readily reorganized, it is really difficult to design a XML watermarking scheme which can get a trade-off between robust and invisible. However, this trade-off can be achieved by the Zero-Watermark method. In this paper, two Zero-Watermark methods are designed and tested for XML documents. One is XSLT-related method which is designed with embedding extra codes in XSLT file to serve as sort of copyright function. Another uses the functional dependency of XML file as feature for Zero-Watermark. Experiment results show that both methods have good real-time performances. Experiment results show that Zero-Watermark algorithm with functional dependency can resist selection attacks, alteration attacks, reorganization attacks and compression attacks.

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Funding was provided by Youth Science Foundation of JiLin Province (Grant No. 20100183).

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  1. Jilin University, Changchun, China

    Quan Wen

  2. Jilin Normal University, Siping, China

    Yufei Wang

  3. North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China

    Peng Li

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Wen, Q., Wang, Y. & Li, P. Two Zero-Watermark methods for XML documents. J Real-Time Image Proc 14, 183–192 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-016-0647-2

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