3. The method of claim 2 wherein the context associated with one or more previously recognized transitions corresponds to a position in the tree representation of the hierarchical data format.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the context associated with one or more previously recognized transitions corresponds to a position in the tree representation of the hierarchical data format. 4. The method of claim 3 wherein the one or more data operations includes an operation for pushing into a scope of a container object, an operation for popping out of a scope of a container object, and an operation for reading a value of a data object.