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NAME

XML::Similarity - Calculate the structural similarity between two XML documents

SYNOPSIS


            

              
              
use XML::Similarity;
my $hs = new XML::Similarity;
my $a = "<html><body></body></html>";
my $b = "<html><body><h1>HOMEPAGE</h1><h2>Details</h2></body></html>";
my $score = $hs->calculate_similarity($a, $b);
print "Similarity: $score\n";

DESCRIPTION

This module is a small and handy tool to calculate structural similarity between any two XML documents. The underlying algorithm is quite simple and straight-forward. It serializes two XML tree to two arrays containing node's tag names and finds the longest common sequence between the two serialized arrays.

The similarity is measured with the formula (2 * LCS' length) / (treeA's length + treeB's length).

Structural similarity can be useful for XML document classification and clustering.

PREREQUISITE

XML::DOM, Algorithm::LCS

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2011 Yung-chung Lin.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.