TY - JOUR AU - Christensen, Aske Simon AU - Kirkegaard, Christian AU - Møller, Anders PY - 2004/12/11 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Runtime System for XML Transformations in Java JF - BRICS Report Series JA - BRICS VL - 11 IS - 33 SE - Articles DO - 10.7146/brics.v11i33.21858 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/brics/article/view/21858 SP - AB - We show that it is possible to extend a general-purpose programming language with a convenient high-level data-type for manipulating XML documents while permitting (1) precise static analysis for guaranteeing validity of the constructed XML documents relative to the given DTD schemas, and (2) a runtime system where the operations can be performed efficiently. The system, named Xact, is based on a notion of immutable XML templates and uses XPath for deconstructing documents. A companion paper presents the program analysis; this paper focuses on the efficient runtime representation. ER -