Template Author and Method of Driving Data Capture in Document Templates
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1. A method of providing data capture in a document template, the document template having conditional criteria and data definitions;
- the method including one of applying incomplete initial data and not applying any initial data to the document template; and
(a) parsing the document template;
(b) identifying a data capture step;
(c) requesting data in response to the data capture step;
(d) re-parsing the selected document template;
wherein the method further includes either identifying an nth data capture step and so repeating steps (c) and (d) or generating a final document.
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Abstract
A method of providing data capture in a document template which has conditional criteria and data definitions. The method steps apply incomplete data to the document template; parse the document template; identify a data capture step; request data in response to the data capture step; and, re-parse the selected document template. The method further either identifies an nth data capture step and repeats the data request and re-parsing steps or generates a final document.
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10 Claims
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1. A method of providing data capture in a document template, the document template having conditional criteria and data definitions;
- the method including one of applying incomplete initial data and not applying any initial data to the document template; and
(a) parsing the document template; (b) identifying a data capture step; (c) requesting data in response to the data capture step; (d) re-parsing the selected document template; wherein the method further includes either identifying an nth data capture step and so repeating steps (c) and (d) or generating a final document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
- the method including one of applying incomplete initial data and not applying any initial data to the document template; and
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9. A computer system for generating a document from a document template, the document template having conditional criteria and data definitions;
- the system including means for applying incomplete data to the document template; and
(a) parsing the document template; (b) identifying a data capture step; (c) requesting data in response to the data capture step; (d) re-parsing the selected document template; wherein the system further includes either identifying an nth data capture step and so repeating steps (c) and (d) or generating the document.
- the system including means for applying incomplete data to the document template; and
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10. A template author operable to create and order a number of data capture steps in a document template;
- the template author being operable to parse conditional criteria and data definitions of the document template; and
to determine a sequence for data capture steps.
- the template author being operable to parse conditional criteria and data definitions of the document template; and
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