Automatically Generating And Porting A Cascading Style Sheets ('CSS') Style Sheet

• US 20120278701A1
• Filed: 04/28/2011
• Published: 11/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bockus, Michael A., Manthei, Jeffrey O., Wilhelm, Robert D., Brewer, Derek R.
• Application Number:
  US13/096,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20120278701A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154

Abstract

Automatically generating and porting a cascading style sheets (‘CSS’) style sheet, including: identifying each node in a structured document; identifying, for each node in the structured document, presentation elements; creating the CSS style sheet; defining, in the CSS style sheet, presentation attributes for each presentation element; and porting the CSS style sheet to a rendering application for rendering the structured document.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of automatically generating and porting a cascading style sheets (‘

CSS’

) style sheet, the method comprising;

identifying each node in a structured document;

identifying, for each node in the structured document, presentation elements;

creating the CSS style sheet;

defining, in the CSS style sheet, presentation attributes for each presentation element; and

porting the CSS style sheet to a rendering application for rendering the structured document.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying each node in a structured document further comprises traversing a document object model (‘

DOM’

) associated with the structured document.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying, for each node in the structured document, presentation elements further comprises inspecting each node in a DOM associated with the structured document.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein defining, in the CSS style sheet, presentation attributes for each presentation element include defining presentation attributes for each presentation element in accordance with a presentation profile.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the rendering application is a web browser.

6. Apparatus for automatically generating and porting a cascading style sheets (‘

CSS’

) style sheet, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of;

identifying each node in a structured document;

identifying, for each node in the structured document, presentation elements;

creating the CSS style sheet;

defining, in the CSS style sheet, presentation attributes for each presentation element; and

porting the CSS style sheet to a rendering application for rendering the structured document.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein identifying each node in a structured document further comprises traversing a document object model (‘

DOM’

) associated with the structured document.

8. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein identifying, for each node in the structured document, presentation elements further comprises inspecting each node in a DOM associated with the structured document.

9. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein defining, in the CSS style sheet, presentation attributes for each presentation element include defining presentation attributes for each presentation element in accordance with a presentation profile.

10. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the rendering application is a web browser.

11. A computer program product for automatically generating and porting a cascading style sheets (‘

CSS’

) style sheet, the computer program product disposed upon a computer readable storage medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of;

identifying each node in a structured document;

identifying, for each node in the structured document, presentation elements;

creating the CSS style sheet;

defining, in the CSS style sheet, presentation attributes for each presentation element; and

porting the CSS style sheet to a rendering application for rendering the structured document.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein identifying each node in a structured document further comprises traversing a document object model (‘

DOM’

) associated with the structured document.

13. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein identifying, for each node in the structured document, presentation elements further comprises inspecting each node in a DOM associated with the structured document.

14. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein defining, in the CSS style sheet, presentation attributes for each presentation element include defining presentation attributes for each presentation element in accordance with a presentation profile.

15. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the rendering application is a web browser.