METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURE BASED ON SCHEMA TO PLANAR DATA STRUCTURE Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC G06F17/21 G06F17/22 G06F17/24 

FIELD: physics; computer engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to methods and systems for converting a hierarchical data structure into a planar data structure. The hierarchical data structure format can be XML. The hierarchical data structure, which conforms to the schema, is loaded into an application program. The data structure contains elements and attributes related to each other through a "parent-child" relationship. The schema sets a hierarchical relationship between the elements and attributes in the hierarchical data structure. After loading the hierarchical data structure conforming to the schema, a set of distribution rules for creating a planar data structure is applied to the hierarchical data structure based on the schema. The distribution rules determine how to put data into the planar data structure. The distribution rules can be applied while identifying properties in the schema which identify requirements for appearance of elements given in the schema. After applying distribution rules to the hierarchical data, the hierarchical data are entered into an electronic table by putting data into rows and columns.

EFFECT: provision for a method and system for converting hierarchical data structure to a planar data structure which is suitable for use in electronic tables, based on a scheme, related to the hierarchical data structure.

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