I want to apply Apriori algorithm to XML document. In this regard, to provide input, I should convert XML data to transaction/matrix form to be acceptable by the algorithm (written both in C# and Java). So far, I’ve tried to convert XML to relational format and even into excel, but the problem remained unsolved. What's the best way to do that? Any suggestion for running Apriori on XML?

These two kinds of structures are different.

An XML document is a tree.

A relational database is a table structure.

Besides, XML is a meta-language. You can use it for all kind of things : XHTML, etc..

So I don't think that there is a perfect and universal way to convert from a XML tree to a table structure and keep some useful meaning for any applications of XML. Maybe you should restrict yourself to a particular type of XML documents such as XHTML.

And I think that you should also think what kind of services you want to provide to the user? For example, if you decide to mine XHTML documents, then why? Is it to analyse text of webpages? or ... What I mean by this, is that by thinking about what is your goal for the user, it can help you about how to solve your problem. You should not mine XML documents for mining XML documents. You should think about some use case where it is useful for a user.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2015 02:36AM by webmasterphilfv.

Please post your code for association rule mining with XML.