Patent Document ID: 7493603
Application ID: 10418658

Base Claim:
1. A method for validating a markup language document against a markup language schema definition, the method comprising: loading the markup language document into a runtime validation engine, the runtime validation engine comprising a markup language schema validation parser; loading an annotated automaton encoding corresponding to the markup language schema definition into the markup language schema validation parser; and the markup language schema validation parser utilizing the annotated automaton encoding to validate the markup language document against the markup language schema definition including ensuring that the markup language document complies with a format specified by the markup language schema definition.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: tokenizing the markup language document to generate a token; a generic XML parser performing a first validation of the token, the generic XML parser being associated with the runtime validation engine; and the markup language schema validation parser performing a second validation of the token responsive to the token being an element token or an attribute token.