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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2004
Ernest Wing Mah, Markham, CA;
Lawrence Alan Mandel, Toronto, CA;
Craig Salter, Hamilton, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A file validator technique for identifying a test specification to be used for testing validity of a file element associated with a file is provided. The test specification is a member in one of a set of test specifications embedded in the file validator and a set of test specifications not embedded in the file validator. According to the technique, a file element is selected, a pointer associated with the selected file element is selected, and a pointer is used to select the test specification associated with the selected file element, the selected test specification being selectable from one of the set of test specifications embedded in the file validator and the set of test specifications not embedded in the file validator.