Patent ID: 7290012
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium readable by a processor and embodying one or more instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for passing data between an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document and a hierarchical database, the method comprising: providing an Information Management System (IMS) hierarchical database; providing a metadata schema derived from the IMS hierarchical database, the metadata schema comprising a first representation representative of the hierarchical structure of the IMS hierarchical database, a second representation representative of the hierarchical structure of XML documents valid for passing into and out of the IMS hierarchical database, a database field name, and an XML element name that maps to the database field name; passing data between an XML document and the IMS hierarchical database using the metadata schema, further comprising: passing an intact XML document to the IMS hierarchical database and storing it intact, further comprising: