A machine-oriented notation for representation and interchange of extensible
documents:
a method, system, and computer program product for operating upon (e.g. parsing,
and storing documents in) this notation. The notation, referred to herein as "mXML"
for "machine-oriented XML", is designed to be more compact than the Extensible
Markup Language (XML), while still conveying the content and semantics of the data
and the structure of the document. Documents may be created directly in mXML. In
general case, a document represented using mXML notation can be processed more
efficiently than when using the existing human-friendly XML notation, requires
less storage space, and has a lower transmission cost for data interchange. XML
documents can be converted to mXML using techniques of the present invention, and
vice versa. Techniques disclosed herein are also applicable to notations other
than XML.
