Appeal 2007-1505
Application 10/279,481
withdrawn claims 19 and 20 from appeal. For the reasons stated infra, we
will not sustain the Examiner’s rejection of these claims.
INVENTION
The invention is directed to a method of evolving one XML schema (a
document format scheme) to another XML schema. The method makes use
of several schema manipulations to evolve the schema. The method also
includes steps to validate the schema manipulation. See pages 5 and 6 of
Appellant’s Specification. Claims 1 and 11 are representative of the
invention and are reproduced below:
1. A computer-implemented method for evolving a first XML
schema to a second XML schema in application involving a
plurality XML documents which are valid against said first
XML schema, comprising the steps of:
performing a plurality of schema manipulation operations to the
first XML schema to generate the second XML schema, the schema
manipulation operations including operations of the group including:
inserting a schema segment, deleting a schema segment, replacing a
schema segment;
validating the plurality of schema manipulation operations by
performing operations comprising:
determining whether a second set containing all valid XML
documents of said second XML schema contains a first set containing
all valid XML documents of said first XML schema.
11. A computer-implemented method for determining whether
a first set of XML documents contains a second set of XML
documents, said first set of XML documents being the set of all
valid XML documents of a first XML schema and said second
set of XML documents being the set of all valid XML
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