Shape Preserving Tree Transducers
Published: Jun 27, 2025
Last Updated: Jun 27, 2025
Authors:Paul Gallot, Sebastian Maneth
Abstract
It is shown that shape preservation is decidable for top-down tree transducers, bottom-up tree transducers, and for compositions of total deterministic macro tree transducers. Moreover, if a transducer is shape preserving, then it can be brought into a particular normal form, where every input node creates exactly one output node.