Patent ID: 7761459

Claim:
A method for efficiently processing a structured data file, the structured data file including one or more pieces of content, comprising: receiving the structured data file; creating an intermediate file, wherein the intermediate file is a binary file having a plurality of cells organized into groupings, wherein each of the groupings of cells constitutes a record; parsing the structured data file by: creating, using a processor, a first record in the intermediate file, the first record corresponding to a first piece of content in the structured data file, the first piece of content having a next sibling node and a child node, the first record containing one or more descriptors containing information regarding the first piece of content, wherein one of the one or more descriptors contains a location, within the structured data file, of the first piece of content, wherein none of the descriptors in the first record refer to both a second record in the intermediate file representing the next sibling node and a third record in the intermediate file representing the child node; and transmitting the intermediate file and the structured data file to a component so that the component accesses data from the structured data file using both the intermediate file and the structured data file together.