Extensible stylesheet designs using meta-tag and/or associated meta-tag information

A method for designing extensible stylesheets, the method comprising:

• identifying an element as a reference in an XML file after the XML file is parsed, wherein the XML file includes a plurality of elements and the element is one of the elements in the XML file;
• search in the XML file for any of the elements identical to the reference;
• labeling explicitly in the XML file some of the elements identical to the reference by respective identifiers such that the elements are respectively differentiated;
• wherein each of the elements pertains to either one of meta-tag information and associated meta-tag information;
• and
• wherein, when the file is used to generate a stylesheet in accordance with a presentation of another file, the meta-tag information or associated meta-tag information in the file are converted accordingly in the stylesheet.

A software product including computer program code for designing extensible stylesheets, the software product executable in a computing device operating under a window operating system, the software product comprising:

• program code for receiving a file including a plurality of elements;
• program code for identifying one of the elements as a reference;
• program code for determining if any of the elements except for the reference in the file are identical to the reference;
• program code for inserting one of identifiers to each of some of the elements when the some of the elements are determined to be identical to the reference, wherein each of the identifiers is different from each other, and the some of the elements are uniquely differentiated;
• and
• wherein, when the file is used to generate another file, the elements are differentiated and converted accordingly in the another file.

A software product including computer program code for designing extensible stylesheets, the software product executable in a computing device operating under a window operating system, the software product comprising:

• program code for identifying an element as a reference in an XML file after the XML file is parsed, wherein the XML file includes a plurality of elements and the element is one of the elements;
• program code for search in the XML file for any of the elements identical to the reference;
• program code for labeling explicitly in the XML file some of the elements identical to the reference by respective identifiers such that the elements are differentiated;
• wherein each of the elements pertains to either one of meta-tag information and associated meta-tag information;
• and
• wherein, when the file is used to generate a stylesheet in accordance with a presentation of another file, the meta-tag information or associated meta-tag information in the file are converted accordingly in the stylesheet.