DATA TRANSFORMATION

• US 20100088363A1
• Filed: 10/08/2008
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Hughes, Shannon Ray
• Granted Patent: US 8,984,165 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3249 data relating to a linked page or object, e.g. hyperlink

Abstract

Some embodiments of data transformation have been presented. In one embodiment, a markup language file is transformed into a web server type page file. The transforming may include wrapping text in the markup language file with directives of a web server type page, using regular expression pattern matching to identify internal links in the markup language file, and converting the internal links identified into web server type page links.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method to transform a markup language file into a web server type page file, said method comprising:

wrapping text in the markup language file with directives of a web server type page;

using regular expression pattern matching to identify internal links in the markup language file; and

converting the internal links identified into web server type page links.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the markup language is hypertext markup language (HTML).

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the markup language is extended markup language (XML).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the web server type page is Java Server Page (JSP).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the web server type page is Active Server Page (ASP).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said wrapping text is performed in response to commands in a bash script.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

compiling the web server type page file to generate a servlet on a web server, the servlet operable to dynamically generate a webpage in response to a web client request and to render content of the markup language file in the webpage.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the markup language file is part of a directory tree of markup language files and the method further comprises:

using recursion to transform the directory tree into multiple web server type page files.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a data transformer to transform a markup language file into a web server type page file, said transformer comprising;

a text processor to wrap text in the markup language file with web server type page directives of a web server type page; and

a regular expression engine to identify internal links the markup language file by one or more predetermined patterns, wherein the text processor converts the internal links identified into web server type page links.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the markup language is hypertext markup language (HTML).

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the markup language is extended markup language (XML).

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the web server type page is Java Server Page (JSP).

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the web server type page is Active Server Page (ASP).

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein said text processor wraps text in the markup language file with web server type page directives in response to commands in a bash script.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein said regular expression engine is implemented with a Perl script.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising:

a compiler to compile the web server type page file to generate a servlet on a web server, the servlet operable to dynamically generate a webpage in response to a web client request and to render content of the markup language file in the webpage.

17. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the markup language file is part of a directory tree of markup language files and the data transformer uses recursion to transform the directory tree into multiple web server type page files.

18. A system comprising the apparatus of claim 9, further comprising:

a web server operable to execute a servlet generated from the web server type page file to generate a web page to render content of the markup language file in the webpage.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising:

a client machine communicably coupled to the web server via a network to request and to receive the webpage from the web server.

22. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the markup language is extended markup language (XML).

20. A computer-readable storage medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a processor, will cause the processor to perform a method to transform a markup language file into a web server type page file, said method comprising:

wrapping text in the markup language file with directives of a web server type page;

using regular expression pattern matching to identify internal links in the markup language file; and

converting the internal links identified into web server type page links.

21. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the markup language is hypertext markup language (HTML).

23. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the web server type page is Java Server Page (JSP).

24. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the web server type page is Active Server Page (ASP).

25. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein said wrapping text is performed in response to commands in a bash script.

26. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the method further comprises:

compiling the web server type page file to generate a servlet on a web server, the servlet operable to dynamically generate a webpage in response to a web client request and to render content of the markup language file in the webpage.

27. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the markup language file is part of a directory tree of markup language files and the method further comprises:

using recursion to transform the directory tree into multiple web server type page files.