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Context-free document portions with alternate formats

  • US 7,464,330 B2
  • Filed: 12/20/2004
  • Issued: 12/09/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-readable medium on which is stored instructions which when executed by a computer perform a method of integrating a content portion in a receiving document based on self-describing properties associated with the content portion, comprising:

  • receiving a content portion having a self-describing property identifying a file format with which the content portion is formatted;

    receiving the content portion at a receiving application for integrating the content portion with a computer-generated document;

    at the receiving application, parsing the self-describing property identifying the file format with which the content portion is formatted, wherein the self-describing property comprises at least one markup language element;

    processing the content portion according to the file format with which the content portion is formatted;

    validating the at least one markup language element against at least one schema file attached to the computer-generated document, wherein the schema file comprises rules defining valid annotations of the computer-generated document with markup language elements listed in the at least one schema file; and

    integrating the content portion with the computer-generated document, wherein integrating the content portion comprises annotating the computer-generated document with the self-describing property comprising the at least one markup language element.

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