Efficient representation and streaming of XML content over the internet medium

As large XML documents with text and multimedia are exchanged and streamed over the Interact medium, techniques for compact and efficient representation and exchange for this data become essential. We have designed a system called Millau for efficient encoding and streaming of XML structures. In this paper, we describe the Millau algorithms for compression and streaming of XML structures and data. In order to be able to transmit the most important information first, Millau builds a solution for fragmenting an XML document, associating a priority to each fragment, streaming each fragment independently, and rebuilding the whole document or parts of the document according to the user's preferences or the browser capabilities. This solution can he applied to the streaming of structured XML documents with text or multimedia data.