Viewing structured data published to a topic tree as restructured data tree according to a topic view mapping

A distribution server restructures content and information published to a topic tree for presentation to a subscribing client. The distribution server receives a request to create a topic view from a client and creates the topic view in response. The topic view includes a set of selected topics and a topic view mapping. The topic view mapping maps the topic paths for the set of selected topics to a set of reference topics at a set of reference paths. In other words, the topic view restructures the content and information by creating new branches in the topic tree. Whenever a selected topic receives an update from a publisher, the distribution server publishes the update as restructured content and information to the reference topics at the reference paths. A client subscribed to the reference path receives the update in a restructured manner. The syntax may define a set of topic selectors for the set of selected topics, the set of topics selectors describing a set of selected topic paths the plurality of topic paths corresponding to their respective selected topics.