Appeal 2007-1505
Application 10/279,481
documents of a second XML schema, the method comprising
the steps of:
locating a first root element for said first XML schema and a
second root element for said second schema;
removing all elements and attributes from said first XML
schemas that are not reachable from said first root element and from
said second XML schema that are not reachable from said second root
element;
constructing a first total element list which contains elements in
said first XML schema and a second total element list which contains
elements in said second schema;
returning false if said first element list does not contain said
second element list; and
performing element comparison for each of said elements in
said second element list with said corresponding elements in said first
element list.
REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the Examiner are:
Sarkar US 6,418,448 B1 Jul. 9, 2002
Clewis US 2003/0084054 A1 May 1, 2003
(filed Oct. 26, 2001)
Su US 2003/0167445 A1 Sep. 4, 2003
(filed Mar. 4, 2002)
Ripley US 6,742,001 B2 May 25, 2004
(filed Jun. 27, 2001)
Roger L. Costello, Challenge of XML Schemas-Schema Evolution May 29,
2000,http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:LYIOREHZSOwC:www.xfront.
org/EvolvableSchemas.html+challange+xml+schemas+evolution&hl=en&ie
=UTF-8.
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