A variable-length binary string is utilized to encode node identifiers in a tree for an XML document object model. A general prefix encoding scheme is followed; a node identifier is generated by the concatenation of encodings at each level of a tree along a path from a root node to another particular...http://www.google.fr/patents/US7937413?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7937413 - Self-adaptive prefix encoding for stable node identifiers
Self-adaptive prefix encoding for stable node identifiers