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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2006
Jorg Heuer, Munich, DE;
Andreas Hutter, Munich, DE;
Ulrich Niedermeier, Munich, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for improving functionality of a binary representation of an XML-based content description, wherein a structure of any instance of an XML document corresponds to a tree-like data structure is provided. The method includes providing that each tree node represents an element of the content description and has a structure which is defined in a schema, providing the tree nodes in the binary representation with tree branch codes, providing that the respective tree branch code has a schema branch code and, when there are multiple occurrences of an associated child node based on the definition of the schema, a position code, and re-sorting a complete path such that all the position codes are moved to an end of the respective complete path, thereby enabling simpler filtering of the binary representation.