SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT PUBLISHING

• US 20100095197A1
• Filed: 10/13/2008
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Hermes, Martin, Rinck, Matthias, Klevenz, Stephan
• Application Number:
  US12/250,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20100095197A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

This disclosure provides various embodiments of software and systems for integrating static and dynamic content for an instance of a web page. In one aspect, the software identifies a content repository of structured dynamic content associated with information for a web page comprising unstructured static content. The software inserts a metadata data structure defining a set of the structured dynamic content into the unstructured static content of the web page to create a tag-enriched web page. The software can further perform a publish process for the tag-enriched web page comprising querying the content repository for the set of structured dynamic content information defined by the metadata data structure, populating the metadata-enriched web page with the results of the publish process query, and storing the updated web page at a web server.

Claims

1. Software for providing integration of static and dynamic content for an instance of a web page, the software comprising computer readable instructions embodied on tangible media and operable when executed to:

identify a content repository of structured dynamic content associated with information for a web page comprising unstructured static content;

insert a metadata data structure defining a set of the structured dynamic content into the unstructured static content of the web page to create a tag-enriched web page;

perform a publish process for the tag-enriched web page, wherein the publish process comprises;

querying the content repository for the set of structured dynamic content information defined by the metadata data structure;

populating the metadata-enriched web page with the results of the publish process query; and

storing the updated web page at a web server.

2. The software of claim 1, where the content repository of structured dynamic content comprises a database storing business data.

3. The software of claim 2, where the business data comprises product information including price information, product descriptions, and product inventory information.

4. The software of claim 1 further operable when executed to save the metadata-enriched web page in a design-time web page repository while performing the publish process.

5. The software of claim 4 further operable when executed to:

identify content updates to the content repository associated with the saved metadata-enriched web page after performing the publish process; and

perform a republish process for the metadata-enriched web page, wherein the republish process comprises;

querying the content repository for the updated set of information defined by the metadata data structure;

populating the metadata-enriched web page with the updated results; and

storing the updated web page at the web server.

6. The software of claim 5, wherein identifying content updates to the content repository comprises receiving a notification of changes to the content repository associated with the saved metadata-enriched web page.

7. The software of claim 5, wherein identifying content updates to the content repository comprises:

automatically querying the content repository at predefined intervals for results involving the set of information defined by the metadata data structure inserted in the metadata-enriched web page; and

determining whether the results of the query differ from the set of information used to populate the metadata-enriched web page.

8. The software of claim 1, where the web page consists of static content.

9. The software of claim 1, wherein the populated web page stored at the web server during the publish process comprises a first version of the web page, and further wherein the updated second web page stored at the web server during the republish process comprises a second version of the web page.

10. The software of claim 1, wherein the unstructured static content of the web page defines the presentation of the web page.

11. The software of claim 10, wherein the unstructured static content comprises hypertext markup language (HTML).

12. The software of claim 1, where the set of the structured dynamic content comprises a discrete data item.

13. The software of claim 1, where the web page is generated from a generic web page template.

14. The software of claim 13 further operable when executed to initially load the web page template from a set of one or more web page templates stored in a design-time template repository.

15. The software of claim 14, where the web page template comprise Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) files.

16. The software of claim 1, where the identified content repository comprises one of a plurality of communicably coupled content repositories and the software is further operable when executed to automatically identify the appropriate content repository.

17. The software of claim 1, wherein the metadata data structure comprises a metatag.

18. A server integrating static and dynamic content for an instance of a web page being published comprising:

a memory storing a web content management system and a web page; and

one or more processors operable to;

identify a content repository of structured dynamic content associated with information for the web page comprising unstructured static content;

insert a metadata data structure defining a set of the structured dynamic content into the unstructured static content of the web page to create a tag-enriched web page;

perform a publish process for the tag-enriched web page, wherein the publish process comprises;

querying the content repository for the set of structured dynamic content information defined by the metadata data structure;

populating the metadata-enriched web page with the results of the publish process query; and

storing the updated web page at a web server.

19. The server of claim 18, where the one or more processors are further operable to save the metadata-enriched web page in a design-time web page repository while performing the publish process.

20. The server of claim 19, where the one or more processors are further operable to:

identify content updates to the content repository associated with the saved metadata-enriched web page after performing the publish process; and

perform a republish process for the metadata-enriched web page, where the republish process comprises;

querying the content repository for the updated set of information defined by the metadata data structure;

populating the metadata-enriched web page with the updated results; and

storing the updated web page at the web server.