Method of operating an extensible markup language database

摘要

A system for handling a structured data document in a extensible markup language database comprises a document flattener receiving the structured data document and forming a flattened document; a transform generator connected to a parser, the transform generator creating a data transform for each of a plurality of data entries and creating a tag string transform for a plurality of associated tags; a map store connected to the transform generator and having a plurality of cells each containing a pointer to an index; and an associative map index having a plurality of map addresses, each of the plurality of addresses having a pointer to the map store.