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RICH TEXT HANDLING FOR A WEB APPLICATION

  • US 20130305141A1
  • Filed: 07/15/2013
  • Published: 11/14/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of representing and managing documents having rich text for use by applications, the method comprising:

  • representing rich text in a memory structure representation;

    providing one or more classes for use by the applications to create the memory structure representation, the one or more classes including a rich text list class to create a rich text list node and to manage one or more rich text nodes and a rich text class to create the one or more rich text nodes each representing a unit of the rich text, wherein the rich text is edited as plain text using an applet;

    providing well-formed segments of text to the one or more current rich text nodes from a rich text list node to initialize the current rich text nodes for representing rich text in a document;

    transforming the text from memory format into string representations, wherein the transforming comprises converting the rich text into extensible markup language (XML) and using a compressed format where various attributes of the rich text nodes are captured along with a text value for each of the rich text nodes; and

    displaying the transformed text in a document.

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