Information processing apparatus and user interface control method

A user interface control method executed by an information processing apparatus, which comprises:

• a storage unit adapted to store first and second user interface description documents including input information;
• a parsing unit adapted to parse the first and second user interface description documents;
• a management unit adapted to manage user interface information obtained as a result of parsing by the parsing unit;
• an input unit adapted to control data input, according to the input information;
• an output unit adapted to control data output, according to the output information;
• and
• a control unit adapted to control operation of a user interface, according to the control information,
• wherein the first user interface description document includes an instruction to refer to the second user interface description document, wherein the language specification of the first user interface description document is written using the same language specification as the second user interface description document from among a plurality of language specifications using a specific description language describing a user interface,
• the first user interface description document further includes a designation which defines, as a widget, a user interface described by the second user interface description document as the reference destination, and is associated with an operation of the widget, and has a conversion part that converts execution of the operation of the widget into an event of the second user interface description document, and has a notification part that notifies the converted event to the second user interface description document, and
• the second user interface description document includes descriptions of an event corresponding to the description associated with the operation and an action corresponding to the event in the control information,
• said method comprising:
• parsing, by the parsing unit, of the first user interface description document and the second user interface description document as a reference destination of the first user interface description document;
• integrating and managing, by the management unit, of user interface information of the parsed first and second user interface description documents;
• implementing, by the control unit, of an operation, according to the control information of the second user interface description document;
• and
• executing, by the control unit, of an action in response to the event converted by the conversion part in accordance with the control information in the second user interface description document.