DMTT - An approach for business Document Mapping and Transformation in B2B collaboration

Business documents are frequently exchanged between business entities as well as within the enterprise. In the context of dynamic business to business (B2B) collaborations, where partnerships are formed in an ad-hoc manner, the relationships between the elements of these documents are often unknown to each. To translate the information from a document to another, a mapping and transformation of these elements are required. To identify the possible mappings automatically, a matching is performed. In the matching of business documents, one of the challenges identified is matching the multi-word used to define the element names. Our contributions in this paper are two folds. Firstly, we proposed an algorithm to address the matching of multi-word in XML business documents using their corresponding XML Schemas. Secondly, we proposed Document Mapping and Transformation Tool (DMTT), a solution to the mapping and transformation of XML business documents. DMTT employed combined matching techniques to derive the recommended correspondences of XML schemas with the consideration of both element and structural aspects of schemas.