Generating XML structure using examples and constraints

This paper presents a framework for automatically generating structural XML documents. The user provides a target DTD and an example of an XML document, called a Generate-XML-By-Example Document , or a GxBE document , for short. GxBE documents use a natural declarative syntax, which includes XPath expressions and the function count. Using GxBE documents, users can express important global and local characteristics for the desired target documents, and can require satisfaction of XPath expressions from a given workload. This paper explores the problem of efficiently generating a document that satisfies a given DTD and GxBE document.