10. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the specified operation is a selected one of insertion of a node, deletion of a node, and modification of a value.
9. A computer program product for merging documents comprising: a computer readable storage device having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising computer readable program code configured to: receive an update document and a target document, wherein the update document and target document are document instances of a common document schema; determine whether an item of information in the update document is associated with an eligible path of the document schema in a predefined update table; generate, responsive to affirming that the item of information is associated with the eligible path, a specification of an operation by which the item of information is merged into the target document in compliance with the document schema; and apply the specified operation to the target document to produce an updated document in compliance with the document schema.