System and method for interactive electronic media extraction for web page generation

A method for extracting data from a selected menu structure of an electronic media database structure for generating relative addressed Web pages, said method comprising:

• (a) identifying whether a data object is of type menu, narrative, graphic, table, or procedure, and if said data object is a menu type, creating a starting menu from said selected menu structure;
• (b) selecting data object information from said database structure;
• (c) creating an HTML file representing said data object;
• (d) selectively saving links found within said information for later processing;
• (e) if said data object is a procedure type, then if there is an exited-to procedure then
• (1) selecting procedure information for an exited-to procedure from said database structure;
• (2) creating an HTML file representing said exited-to procedure;
• (3) recursively performing steps (b) to (e) for said exited-to procedure;
• and
• (f) if said data object or said exited-to procedure is a procedure type having no exited-to procedure, then if there is a decision in said procedure comprising a YES portion and a NO portion then
• (1) selecting the YES portion of said procedure and recursively performing steps (a) to (f) on the YES portion;
• and
• (2) selecting the NO portion of said procedure and recursively performing steps (a) to (f) on the NO portion;
• (g) processing said saved links;
• and
• (h) repeating steps (a) to (g) for each data object in said selected menu structure.

A computer readable medium containing code for extracting data from a selected menu structure of an electronic media database structure for generating relative addressed Web pages, the code implementing steps of:

• (a) identifying whether a data object is of type menu, narrative, graphic, table, or procedure, and if said data object is a menu type, creating a starting menu from said selected menu structure;
• (b) selecting data object information from said database structure;
• (c) creating an HTML file representing said data object;
• (d) selectively saving links found within said information for later processing;
• (e) if said data object is a procedure type, then if there is an exited-to procedure then
• (1) selecting procedure information for an exited-to procedure from said database structure;
• (2) creating an HTML file representing said exited-to procedure;
• (3) recursively performing steps (b) to (e) for said exited-to procedure;
• and
• (f) if said data object or said exited-to procedure is a procedure type having no exited-to procedure, then if there is a decision in said procedure comprising a YES portion and a NO portion then
• (1) selecting the YES portion of said procedure and recursively performing steps (a) to (f) on the YES portion;
• and
• (2) selecting the NO portion of said procedure and recursively performing steps (a) to (f) on the NO portion;
• (g) processing said saved links;
• and
• (h) repeating steps (a) to (g) for each data object in said selected menu structure.

A computer readable medium comprising computer code for extracting data from a selected menu structure of an electronic media database structure for generating relative addressed Web pages, comprising:

• a first code section for identifying whether a data object is of type menu, narrative, graphic, table, or procedure, and if said data object is a menu type, creating a starting menu from said selected menu structure;
• a second code section for selecting data object information from said database structure;
• a third code section for creating an HTML file representing said data object;
• a fourth code section for saving links found within said information for later processing;
• a fifth code section for recursively processing links and decision branches in procedure type information;
• and
• a sixth code section for processing said saved links.