US 2017/0249287 A1 · HIERARCHICAL IDENTIFIERS FOR HTML ELEMENTS

Abstract

Elements within HTML based applications may be logically related; however, HTML does not have built-in support for indicating these relationships, such as parent-child relationships. Instead, relationships among HTML elements are not utilized or are incorrectly inferred based on nesting of HTML elements within an HTML document. As a result, when creating a DOM for an HTML document, the hierarchy of elements in the DOM tree is based on coded locations of elements within the HTML document rather than logical relationships among elements. To allow for indication of logical relationships, a hierarchical identifier attribute may be used in conjunction with the HTML id attribute. For example, two elements may include a hierarchical identifier of “person” with base identifiers of “name” and “address”.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving code which comprises a plurality of elements;
for each of the plurality of elements,
identifying a plurality of identifiers associated with the element;
determining a hierarchical relationship for the element based, at least in part, on the plurality of identifiers;
and
indicating in an element tree the hierarchical relationship of the element relative to the plurality of elements;
and
providing the element tree for analysis of hierarchical relationships among the plurality of elements.

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One or more machine-readable storage media having program code stored therein, the program code comprising instructions to:

receive code which comprises a plurality of elements;
for each of the plurality of elements,
identify a plurality of identifiers associated with the element;
determine a hierarchical relationship for the element based, at least in part, on the plurality of identifiers;
and
indicate in an element tree the hierarchical relationship of the element relative to the plurality of elements;
and
in response to a request to retrieve elements related to a first of the plurality of elements,
traverse the element tree to identify the first element;
and
determine elements related to the first element based, at least in part, on the hierarchical relationships indicated in the element tree;
and
supply the elements related to the first element.

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An apparatus comprising:

a processor;
and
a machine-readable medium having program code executable by the processor cause the apparatus to,
receive code which comprises a plurality of elements;
for each of the plurality of elements,
identify a plurality of identifiers associated with the element;
determine a hierarchical relationship for the element based, at least in part, on the plurality of identifiers;
and
indicate in an element tree the hierarchical relationship of the element relative to the plurality of elements;
and
provide the element tree for analysis of hierarchical relationships among the plurality of elements.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Hierarchical identifiers for html elements

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Abstract

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