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X2Rel is a new language to express binary relations between XML documents. A wide range of relations can be expressed: between different versions of the same document, between an instance and a schema document, between documents before and after a transformation, and others. The syntax of X2Rel is given in XML and its semantics is defined formally. The language relies on the well-established XML technologies of XML Schema and XSL Transformations. The paper presents the ongoing development of the language.
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Janowski, T. (2003). X2Rel: An XML Relation Language with Formal Semantics. In: Aichernig, B.K., Maibaum, T. (eds) Formal Methods at the Crossroads. From Panacea to Foundational Support. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40007-3_7
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