Method and apparatus for compressing and/or decompressing a data structure

摘要

A method of compressing a data structure (200) having data content and at least one content name associated with the data structure, using a compression scheme (216) capable of compressing content names only if comprising characters from a restricted character set, is described. The method comprises encoding a content name including a character not from the restricted character set into a representation using characters from the restricted character set, and compressing the data structure.