Efficient storage and manipulation of structured documents

A method and system for efficient processing of structured documents is provided. The method includes creating fragments of the structured document. The method also includes creating an ordered list including a plurality of descriptors pointing to the structured document fragments. Further, the method includes modifying the ordered list for manipulating of the structured document. The system includes one or more message blocks. The system also includes a message control block for pointing to the one or more message blocks. Further, the system includes one or more data blocks and a plurality of binary tokens for pointing to the one or more data blocks. Moreover, the system includes a plurality of ordered lists of descriptors.