Schema, syntactic analysis method and method of generating a bit stream based on a schema

摘要

The invention proposes a new type of schema derived from the (B2)XML schema which permits to describe a coding format in a generic fashion. Such a schema is used to carry out the syntactic analysis of a bit stream (B1) to produce a document (B4) that represents the bit stream which is an instance of said schema, or to generate a bit stream from a document representing the bit stream.