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Structuring an electronic document for efficient identification and use of document parts

  • US 20060259854A1
  • Filed: 05/10/2005
  • Published: 11/16/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for structuring an electronic document for identification or use of document parts by a variety of applications, the method comprising:

  • organizing parts of an electronic document as a collection of separate parts associated with an electronic document container wherein the parts comprise at least one of a resource internal to the document or a resource external to where the document is located;

    representing a link between any of the parts as a relationship listed in a relationship part associated with a part of the document that is a source part of one or more relationships to be processed wherein the relationship part contains a list of relationships for the source part and wherein processing the relationships returns content of a part that is a target part of a relationship;

    representing via the relationships part how one or more separate parts of the collection relate to other separate parts;

    tracking the resource internal to the document via an internal relationship; and

    tracking the resource external to where the document is located via an external relationship;

    whereby applications discovering a structure of the document can infer the structure by traversing the relationships without parsing any source part or target part of the document.

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