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Method and apparatus for declarative updating of self-describing, structured documents

  • US 8,171,396 B2
  • Filed: 10/01/2007
  • Issued: 05/01/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of preparing a response to an XML document received, the method including:

  • receiving an XML document and detecting its document type;

    looking up the document type and offering a user one or more available reply document types to select and generate in draft;

    applying a first style sheet to generate the selected draft reply document and building an in-memory tree-based representation of the selected draft reply document;

    applying a second style sheet to generate an interface that supports editing of the in-memory draft reply document;

    accepting edits, updating the in-memory draft reply document, marshalling it into XML format, and either persisting it for later use or sending it as a reply to the XML document.

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