Data Mining on XML Data

With the growing usage of XML data for data storage and exchange, there is an imminent need to develop efficient algorithms to perform data mining on semistructured XML data. Mining on XML data is much more difficult than mining on relational data because of the complexity of structure in XML data. A naïve approach to mining on XML data is to first convert XML data into relational format. However the structure information may be lost during the conversion. It is desired to develop efficient and effective data mining algorithms that can be directly applied on XML data.