US 6,604,100 B1
METHOD FOR CONVERTING RELATIONAL DATA INTO A STRUCTURED DOCUMENTGeneral
US 6,604,100 B1
METHOD FOR CONVERTING RELATIONAL DATA INTO A STRUCTURED DOCUMENT
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
Diane D. Mizrahi
Art Unit:
2175 Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
Agent:
ALTO DYNAMICS, LLC
Inventors:
Maria F. Fernandez; Dan Suciu; Wang-Chiew Tan
Assignee:
Priority:
02/08/01
Filed:
02/08/01
Granted:
08/05/03
Expiration:
09/08/21
Abstract
A method for converting relational data to XML (Extensible Markup Language) is provided. The method, sometimes referred to as SilkRoute, provides a general, dynamic and efficient tool for viewing and querying relational data in XML. SilkRoute can express mappings of relational data in XML that conforms to arbitrary public document type definitions. Also, SilkRoute can materialize the fragment of an XML view needed by an application and it can fully exploit the query engine of a relational database management system whenever data items in an XML view need to be materialized.