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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2003
Jörg Heuer, München, DE;
Andreas Hutter, München, DE;
Ulrich Niedermeier, Landau, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Methods and devices are provided for encoding/decoding structured documents, particularly XML documents, wherein a bit stream or part of a bit stream is produced from a schema as a function of a metaschema with the aid of an encoding method. Under an exemplary embodiment, at least one of the following optimization processes is carried out: separation of anonymous types from element declarations and attribute declarations and encoding as own type, the type definition thereof being instantiated in the schema definition as a top level element; normalization of the syntax trees on the encoder side; replacement of the character strings of type names; and transmission of information for the inheritance tree. The decoding takes such optimization processes into account and conversely produces a schema from the bit stream.