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Much research work has recently focused on the problem of representing historical information in XML. This paper describes a number of temporal XML data models and provides their comparison according to the following properties: time dimension (valid time, transaction time), support of temporal elements and attributes, querying possibilities, association to XML Schema/DTD, and influence on XML syntax. We conclude that the approaches of managing time information using XML mostly do not require changes of current standards.
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Ali, K.A., Pokorný, J. (2009). A Comparison of XML-Based Temporal Models. In: Damiani, E., Yetongnon, K., Chbeir, R., Dipanda, A. (eds) Advanced Internet Based Systems and Applications. SITIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4879. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01350-8_31
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