Here is another article on multipath nonlinear hierarchical transformation. My previous article on Any-to-ANY Structure Transformations was announced here a couple of months ago. It was actually the first part of a larger article. The previous article described Reshaping and this current follow up article describes Restructuring. These terms are usually used interchangeably but these articles also make a case for more accurately identifying different types of structure transformations. Reshaping uses the hierarchical structure semantics to reshape the structure in any way while preserving the data and its semantics as much as possible. While Restructuring uses the natural data relationships in the data structure to create a new structure with new semantics. These transformation types usually have different uses. |