Representação gráfica de documentos XML

Abstract

XML is widely used for storing and exchanging information. There are many factors that led to this widespread use, such as: it is a structured tag-based language, which facilitates its understanding and allows more consistent queries; it has mechanisms to ensure a suitable document structure and to guarantee the necessary information to be valid; it presents good compression rates due to the tags’ repetitive nature, among other factors. However, despite the XML is a well-structured language due to the size and number of tags that a document can have, it becomes difficult to understand the document structure. The objective of this work was to implement a tool to generate e visualize the graphical representation of an XML document. For this, the document structure was translated to a graph representation language, named DOT. Once this translation was done, the GraphViz toll was used to draw the graph composed by the structure of the XML file.