1. An apparatus, comprising: a flow processing module operable to receive one or more documents and a state request that includes a state, wherein the state in compressed notation is organized into an ordered set with one or more Boolean qualifiers for a bisection lookup, and wherein one or more of the Boolean qualifiers identify whether an element is evaluated using a qualification.
1. An apparatus, comprising: a flow processing module operable to receive one or more documents and a state request that includes a state, wherein the state in compressed notation is organized into an ordered set with one or more Boolean qualifiers for a bisection lookup, and wherein one or more of the Boolean qualifiers identify whether an element is evaluated using a qualification. 2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the flow processing module is coupled to a state machine for evaluating the state request.