REDUCING PROGRAMMING COMPLEXITY IN APPLICATIONS INTERFACING WITH PARSERS FOR DATA ELEMENTS REPRESENTED ACCORDING TO A MARKUP LANGUAGE

摘要

According to an aspect of the present invention, a parser provides the portion identifiers (e.g., Xpath(s) in case of XML data files) of at It some of the data elements to the applications. As a result, the applications may be relieved from the task of computing the XPath(s) for various data elements. The implementation of applications may be simplified as a result. In one embodiment, prior API (application programming interface) is extended to provide the XPath(s). In an alternative embodiment, custom API is provided to encode the applications to obtain the XPath(s).