Custom report generation using XML and XSL

• US 20040205617A1
• Filed: 11/06/2001
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Inventors: Light, Claude W.
• Application Number:
  US09/985,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20040205617A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/523
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A method of generating a report using XML and XSL is described. A user browses to a web site and obtains XML-based report content to be formatted. The XML-based report content is received and processed. An HTML-based format report is generated by applying an XSL-based format to the XML-based report content.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of generating a report using a markup language and stylesheet language comprising:

receiving report content in a markup language format; and

generating a markup language format report by applying a stylesheet language format to the received report content.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the markup language format is XML-based.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the stylesheet language format is XSL-based.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the generated markup language format report is HTML-based.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the received report content is received from a web site.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the generated markup language format report is generated at a receiving computer.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the received report content is received from a data store.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the received report content is received by a web browser.

9. A method of generating a report using XML and XSL comprising:

receiving XML-based report content; and

generating an HTML-based format report by applying an XSL-based format to the XML-based report content.

10. A computer system for generating a web-based report using a markup language and a stylesheet language comprising:

one or more processors for receiving and transmitting data; and

a memory coupled to said one or more processors, said memory having stored therein a stylesheet language format and sequences of instructions which, when executed by one of said one or more processors, cause one of said one or more processors to receive report content in a markup language format, and generate a markup language format report by applying a stylesheet language format to the received report content.

11. The computer system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the markup language format is XML-based.

12. The computer system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the stylesheet language format is XSL-based.

13. The computer system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the generated markup language format report is HTML-based.

14. The computer system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the received report content is received from a web site.

15. The computer system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the generated markup language format report is generated at a receiving computer.

16. The computer system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the received report content is received from a data store.

17. The computer system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the received report content is received by a web browser.