@techreport{ilprints280, number = {1997-65}, type = {Technical Report}, title = {An Expressive Model for Comparing Tree-Structured Data}, author = {S. Chawathe and H. Garcia-Molina}, publisher = {Stanford}, year = {1997}, institution = {Stanford InfoLab}, keywords = {Differencing, trees}, url = {http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/280/}, abstract = {We present a novel alternative to the standard edit-script model used to describe changes in tree-structured data. Instead of a procedural edit script, we use a declarative description of tree transformations. This approach allows us to cleanly describe subtree operations such as moves and copies, leading to simpler differencing algorithms.} }