Managing Compressed Structured Text

Abstract

[Definition]: Compressing structured text is the problem of creating a reduced-space representation from which the original data can be re-created exactly. Compared to plain text compression, the goal is to take advantage of the structural properties of the data. A more ambitious goal is that of being able of manipulating this text in compressed form, without decompressing it. This entry focuses on compressing, navigating, and searching structured text, as those are the areas where more advances have been made.