Patent ID: 6662342
Filing Date: 2003-12-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for determining a structure of objects in a document, comprising:while scanning a document type declaration in the document, generating a handle addressing each different object name in memory, wherein there are one or more instances of each different object name in the document, and wherein the handle for an object name is used for each instance of the object having that object name in the document; parsing the document to determine instances of objects within the document; parsing each instance of each object to determine whether a value is provided for the object; returning information on each instance of each object in the document by returning the handle addressing the object name of the object; and returning location information of the value for each object in the document having a value, wherein the returned information identifies the objects in the documents and the location of any values for identified objects in the document without returning a string comprising the value from the document.