METHOD, APPARATUS AND SOFTWARE FOR PROCESSING DATA ENCODED AS ONE OR MORE DATA ELEMENTS IN A DATA FORMAT

摘要

A method, apparatus and software is disclosed for processing data encoded as one or more data elements in a data format, the data format being arranged for further processing by a parser to extract the encoded data elements. An index of the data elements is created for use in the decoding of the data elements. The index is embedded in a part of the file that is not used by the parser for extraction of the data elements from the file.