Patent ID: 7275060

Claim:
A method of handling at least one structured document having a hierarchical structure defined in a structure schema, the structured document comprising a main structured set of information including information subsets, at least one of the information subsets being structured and including information subsets of lower hierarchical level, each information subset being associated in a higher level information set with a respective information type, the structure corresponding to each information type being defined in the structure schema, said method comprising the steps of: dividing the structured document into structured portions capable of being handled individually, namely a main portion and at least one secondary portion, the main portion containing at least a main set of information, and the secondary portion containing an information subset which is removed from the main set of information, each secondary portion being attached to the main portion or to another secondary portion; in each information set from which at least one information subset has been removed, allocating a predefined value to the information type of each removed information subset; transmitting continuously a data stream formed by at least one secondary portion, the step of transmitting comprising at least one step of modifying over time at least one secondary portion, said modifying step consisting of transmitting, while complying with preset periods of time, a plurality of secondary portions associated with a same location in the structure in accordance with at least one predefined rule.