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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Applicants:
Suman K. Kalia, Maple, CA;
Sheng Fang, Toronto, CA;
John H. Green, Toronto, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machiens Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for creating a schema definition from a language-specific metamodel of a data structure written in a legacy computer language involves walking through the nodes of the metamodel, and creating corresponding schema element objects in a schema tree that is serialized to create the schema definition. The creation of the schema element objects follows rules, and permits the definition of nested data structures having conjunctive-type and disjunctive-type membership.