US 8,145,992 B2 · Validation assisted document conversion design

Abstract

Systems and methods are described that facilitate validating electronic document conversion chain design in real time, as a designer edits a conversion chain that converts a document collection between formats. Waypoints are inserted into the document conversion chain by associating validation specifications with selected conversion components in the chain. AS the conversion chain is executed on a document collection, the validation specification is executed on all documents in the collection when a selected conversion component is executed. Validation results are returned to indicate to the designer which documents were successfully converted by the component and which were not. The designer can then modify the conversion chain, which is re-executed, and validation results are again presented to the designer for comparison to the pre-modification validation results. The designer can then approve or reject the modification(s) depending on whether document validation is improved thereby.

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A method of validating a document conversion chain, comprising:

inserting a plurality of waypoints into a first document conversion chain that converts a markup-language document collection from a first format to a second format, wherein the first document conversion chain contains at least one conversion component;
executing the first conversion chain on the document collection to create a first modified document collection;
modifying the at least one conversion component in the first conversion chain to generate a second conversion chain, wherein the plurality of waypoints are maintained;
executing the second conversion chain on the document collection to create a second modified document collection;
generating validation results for each document in the first and second modified document collections at each waypoint in the first conversion chain and the second conversion chain;
and
presenting the validation results to a user;
comparing the validation results of each document in the first modified document collection to the validation results of each document in the second modified document collection.

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Abstract

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