Content transfer
AssigneeTralee Software Pty. Ltd.
InventorJonathon Peter Irons
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of transferring content from a file and a database. In this case, the file includes content instances, each content instance being associated with a respective field, and each field having a respective type. The transfer is achieved by determining the type of each field, and then storing each content instance in a store in accordance with the determined field type of the associated field. Each content instance can then be transferred to the database in accordance with the determined field type. A similar procedure is provided for creating XML files based on content within the database.
Claims26
1-30. (canceled)
A method of extracting content from a database, the database including content instances associated with database fields having a respective database field type, the method including:
- a) determining a mapping in accordance with the content to be extracted from the database;
- b) creating a data store including store fields having required store field types;
- c) retrieving a content instance for a parent node from a database field of the database;
- d) storing the content instance in a store field of the store in accordance with the database field type of the database field and the mapping;
- e) retrieving a content instance for a child node of the parent node from a database field of the database;
- and,
- f) storing the content instance in a store field in the store in accordance with the database field type of the associated database field and the mapping.
A method according to claim 13, wherein the method includes transferring each content instance to the store using a respective query, the query being determined in accordance with the database field type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.