Method and system for processing a style sheet defining a reusable theme for a web page and specifying a relative location of content

• US 9,703,762 B1
• Filed: 12/30/2014
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Original Assignee: Open Text Corporation
• Inventors: Chitale, Sandip V., Totale, Sachin Gopaldas
• Primary Examiner(s): Kells, Asher
• Application Number:
  US14/585,981
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

In general, the technology relates to a method for using reusable themes. The method includes receiving, from a device, a request for a style sheet language file, where the style sheet language file defines a reusable theme for a webpage and specifies a relative location for an image that is used by the reusable theme. The method further includes receiving a request for the image including the relative location of the image, resolving the relative location for the image to obtain an absolute location for the image using a location of the style sheet language file in a web application structure, obtaining the image from the absolute location of the image, and providing the image to the device.

Claims

1. A method for using reusable themes, comprising:

receiving, from a device, a request for a style sheet language file, wherein the style sheet language file defines a reusable theme for a webpage and specifies a relative location for an image that is used by the reusable theme;

receiving a request for the image, wherein the request for the image comprises the relative location of the image;

resolving, by a server, the relative location for the image to obtain an absolute location for the image using a location of the style sheet language file in a web application structure;

obtaining the image from the absolute location of the image; and

providing the image to the device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the style sheet language file is a cascading style sheet file.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the relative location is a relative uniform resource location (URL).

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the absolute location is an absolute URL.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the absolute location comprises the relative location.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the style sheet language file and an image directory that comprises the image are located at a same hierarchical level in a web application structure on a web server.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to:

receive, from a device, a request for a style sheet language file, wherein the style sheet language file defines a reusable theme for a webpage and specifies a relative location for an image that is used by the reusable theme;

receive a request for the image, wherein the request for the image comprises the relative location of the image;

resolve the relative location for the image to obtain an absolute location for the image using a location of the style sheet language file in a web application structure;

obtain the image from the absolute location of the image; and

provide the image to the device.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the style sheet language file is a cascading style sheet file.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the relative location is a relative uniform resource location (URL).

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the absolute location is an absolute URL.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the absolute location comprises the relative location.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the style sheet language file and an image directory comprises the image are located at a same hierarchical level in a web application structure on a web server.