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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJason M. Brown, Malcolm H. M. Holloway, Christopher J. Schaubach, Lisa M. Wood
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Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by using a meta-editor to generate components (e.g., a specification of a rules language that restricts editing operations on structured documents, a specification of rules according to this language, and a graphical user interface editor that operates according to the specified rules) for use in controlling or restricting the changes that can be made to contents of a structured document (e.g., a document encoded in the Extensible Markup Language, or “XML”). A Document Type Definition (“DTD”) is generated as a “bounding DTD”, based on editing choices made using the meta editor, and one or more structured documents containing editing restrictions are generated according to this DTD and these editing choices. An editor (or editing component) is generated that programmatically determines which elements of another structured document can be edited, which elements should be hidden, and so forth. By restricting the parts of the file that can be edited, users who need to do the editing are shielded from irrelevant details, and can carry out their task with less risk of making errors (and without needing to understand the details of the structured document markup language).
A software-implemented method of generating components to control manipulation of structured document content, comprising steps of:
A system for generating components to control manipulation of structured document content, comprising:
A computer program product for generating components to control manipulation of structured document content, the computer program product embodied on one or more computer-readable media and comprising:
A method of enforcing restrictions on how users can edit structured documents, comprising steps of:
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