Method and apparatus for providing an applications development system for internet based applications
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1. A method for developing internet applications with a markup language comprising the steps of:
- defining a set of commands in addition to standard markup language instructions;
imbedding one of said commands in a first file having said standard markup language instructions;
inputting said first file to a preprocessor;
reading, by said preprocessor, lines of said first file;
if one of said lines read by said preprocessor includes one of said commands, executing said command and outputting to an output file a result of said execution; and
if said one of said lines read by said preprocessor is a standard markup language instruction having none of said commands, outputting said standard markup language instruction to said output file without modification.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing an HTML applications development environment is disclosed. The applications development environment is used to develop large HTML based applications. The invention includes a preprocessor and associated preprocessor commands which are inserted into a source HTML file. The preprocessor reads the source file, evaluates the preprocessor commands, and makes the appropriate substitutions into an output HTML file.
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1. A method for developing internet applications with a markup language comprising the steps of:
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defining a set of commands in addition to standard markup language instructions;
imbedding one of said commands in a first file having said standard markup language instructions;
inputting said first file to a preprocessor;
reading, by said preprocessor, lines of said first file;
if one of said lines read by said preprocessor includes one of said commands, executing said command and outputting to an output file a result of said execution; and
if said one of said lines read by said preprocessor is a standard markup language instruction having none of said commands, outputting said standard markup language instruction to said output file without modification.
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2. An applications programming environment for use in developing intemet applications programs with a markup language comprising:
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a set of preprocessor commands for embedding in a computer file containing markup language definitions and stored in a memory; and
a preprocessor capable of receiving said computer file as an input and further capable of scanning said computer file to identify ones of said set of preprocessor commands located therein, said preprocessor further capable of generating an output file including data substitutions defined by said ones of said preprocessor commands as well as all said original markup language definitions. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5)
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