Method of managing multiple resource identifiers

• US 20060184866A1
• Filed: 01/20/2006
• Published: 08/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Rees, Robert Thomas Owen
• Application Number:
  US11/335,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20060184866A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/207
• 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

Abstract

A method of managing multiple resource identifiers in a machine readable document comprises allocating one or more resource identifiers to a context. A base identifier including an identified path element is assigned to the context. A context identifier is further incorporated into the base identifier as a discardable path element.

Claims

1. A method of managing multiple resource identifiers in a machine readable document comprising:

allocating one or more resource identifiers to a context, assigning a base identifier including an identifier path element to the context; and

further incorporating, as a context identifier, a discardable path element in the base identifier.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

assigning a context name to the context; and

associating the resource identifier and the corresponding context name in the document.

3. A method as claimed in claim 2 further comprising:

populating a context map with mapping of a context name to a corresponding base identifier.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

resolving the resource identifier relative to the base identifier and discarding the context identifier.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

applying a transformation to the machine readable document.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5 in which the transformation comprises at least one transformation selected from the group of:

moving a document, moving a resource, and merging multiple documents.

7. A method as claimed in claim 6 in which, where the transformation affects a context, the method further comprises:

updating the identifier path element of the base identifier containing a corresponding context identifier.

8. A method as claimed in claim 1 implemented by a processor operating under instructions contained in a computer readable medium.

9. A method as claimed in claim 5 implemented by a processor operating under instructions contained in a computer readable medium.

10. A method as claimed in claim 7 implemented by a processor operating under instructions contained in a computer readable medium.

14. An apparatus for managing multiple resource identifiers in a machine readable document comprising a processor configured to operate under instructions contained in a computer readable medium to implement the method of claim 1.

15. A computer readable medium containing instructions arranged to operate a processor to implement the method of claim 1.

11. A machine readable document containing multiple resource identifiers in which one or more resource identifiers are allocated to a context, a base identifier is assigned to the context and a discardable path element is incorporated as a context identifier in the base identifier.

12. A machine readable document as claimed in claim 11 in which a context name is assigned to each context, and the resource identifier and the corresponding context name are associated in the document.

13. A machine readable document as claimed in claim 12 further including a context map mapping of the context name to the corresponding base identifier.