US 2002/0059345 A1Published application

Method for generating transform rules for web-based markup languages

OwnerWayne W. Wang, Joey Huanginventors

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Abstract

A method for use in generating a set of transform rules to be used in transforming existing web pages (or other information) for display (or playback, or the like) on associated web enabled Internet appliances. Information in a source page and a template page are identified as elements with an identifier and path name. User actions for arranging the elements are recorded are recorded onto at least a pair of stacks, which might include a redo stack, and an undo stack. The stacks are used as the basis for supporting the user actions. Chains of elements are generated from the stacks, and XSLT is provided from the chains. XSLT is associated with the transform rules, which reference the XSLT. The set of transform rules for the source pages are generated according to the source page URL, the XSLT, and the intended receiving device.

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Dependent claims

A method for generating a set of transform rules to be used in transforming web-based information from a source page format to a web-enabled receiving device template page format, the transformation occurring in response to a request for the web-based information by the receiving device, the method comprising:

displaying the source page and the template page using a graphical user interface;
identifying elements within the information displayed on the source page and the template page;
recording user actions for arranging the elements on the source page and the template page, the user actions being recorded onto at least two stacks, with certain stacks being associated with certain user actions;
using the at least two stacks as the basis for supporting the user actions;
generating chains of elements from the at least two stacks;
providing XSLT from the generated chains;
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generating the set of transform rules for the source page according to the source page URL, the XSLT, and the receiving device.

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Application: 09/824,491Filed 2 Apr 2001
Priority: 12 Sep 2000
Published: 16 May 2002
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Classification4 codes

G06F 16/30
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of unstructured textual data
G06F 16/84
Of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML: mapping; Conversion
G06F 16/88
Mapping; Conversion: mark-up to mark-up conversion
G06F
Computing and data processing