METHOD FOR ENCODING AN XML DOCUMENT, DECODING METHOD, ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, CODING DEVICE, AND ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICE

• Main Authors: KOFLER-VOGT, ANDREA, HEUER, JOERG, HUTTER, ANDREAS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 28.03.2007
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY; CALCULATING; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL; CODING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DECODING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

An XML document is encoded into a bit stream, particularly binary bit stream with at least one XML element having a simple content in which at least one absolute path is represented by a sequence of XML elements and/or XML attribute names. The XML document is represented by a tree structure. All absolute paths of the XML elements with a simple content and XML attributes are sorted according to at least one first predeterminable sorting criterion. A value representative is associated, in a value structure, with each value expression of the XML elements with a simple content and the XML attributes of the respective absolute path. The value representative is stored in the value structure according to a second sorting criterion. A path position, associated with each value representative, represents a position of the respective value representative in the tree structure in relation to the respective absolute path.