Apparatus, method and machine-readable medium for facilitating generation of a markup language document containing identical sets of markup language elements

• US 20070180360A1
• Filed: 02/02/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Nextair Corporation
• Inventors: Neil, Tim
• Granted Patent: US 8,046,679 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/88 Mark-up to mark-up conversion conversion for visualization in web browsing G06F16/9577

Abstract

From a markup language document (e.g. an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document expressed as a Document Object Model (DOM) tree) having a markup language element hierarchy containing a set of markup language elements and a plurality of references to the hierarchy, another markup language document (e.g. a textual XML document) is generated which contains one instance of the set of markup language elements for each of the plurality of references. The generated markup language document may otherwise have the same content as the original markup language document. Generation of a markup language document containing identical sets of markup language elements may thereby be simplified.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory coupled to said at least one processor storing;

a markup language document containing;

a markup language element hierarchy containing a set of markup language elements; and

a plurality of references to said markup language element hierarchy; and

machine-executable code which, when executed by the at least one processor, generates, from said markup language document, another markup language document containing one instance of said set of markup language elements for each of said plurality of references.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said markup language is Extensible Markup Language (XML), said markup language document is an XML document, said set of markup language elements is a set of XML elements, and said another markup language document is another XML document.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said markup language element hierarchy has a parent markup language element and wherein each of said plurality of references is a further markup language element having an attribute identifying said parent markup language element of said markup language element hierarchy.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of said markup language elements of said set is representative of a wireless communication device action and wherein said markup language element hierarchy has a parent markup language element representative of an aggregation of wireless communication device actions.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said wireless communication device action is any of displaying a message box, sending a markup language message, terminating an application, closing a graphical user interface (GUI) screen, executing a conditional if-then-else expression, playing a notification sound, opening a specified GUI screen, purging a buffer, refreshing a displayed GUI screen or saving a value to the buffer.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of said markup language elements of said set is an instance of the same markup language element.

7. A machine-readable medium comprising:

machine-executable code for generating, from a markup language document containing;

a markup language element hierarchy containing a set of markup language elements; and

a plurality of references to said markup language element hierarchy, another markup language document containing one instance of said set of markup language elements for each of said plurality of references.

8. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein said markup language is Extensible Markup Language (XML), said markup language document is an XML document, said set of markup language elements is a set of XML elements, and said another markup language document is another XML document.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein said markup language element hierarchy has a parent markup language element and wherein each of said plurality of references is a further markup language element having an attribute identifying said parent markup language element of said markup language element hierarchy.

10. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein each of said markup language elements of said set is representative of a wireless communication device action and wherein said markup language element hierarchy has a parent markup language element representative of an aggregation of wireless communication device actions.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein said wireless communication device action is any of displaying a message box, sending a markup language message, terminating an application, closing a graphical user interface (GUI) screen, executing a conditional if-then-else expression, playing a notification sound, opening a specified GUI screen, purging a buffer, refreshing a displayed GUI screen or saving a value to the buffer.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein each of said markup language elements of said set is an instance of the same markup language element.

13. A method comprising:

generating, from a markup language document containing;

a markup language element hierarchy containing a set of markup language elements; and

a plurality of references to said markup language element hierarchy, another markup language document containing one instance of said set of markup language elements for each of said plurality of references.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein said markup language is Extensible Markup Language (XML), said markup language document is an XML document, said set of markup language elements is a set of XML elements, and said another markup language document is another XML document.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein said markup language element hierarchy has a parent markup language element and wherein each of said plurality of references is a further markup language element having an attribute identifying said parent markup language element of said markup language element hierarchy.

16. The method of claim 13 wherein each of said markup language elements of said set is representative of a wireless communication device action and wherein said markup language element hierarchy has a parent markup language element representative of an aggregation of wireless communication device actions.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein said wireless communication device action is any of displaying a message box, sending a markup language message, terminating an application, closing a graphical user interface (GUI) screen, executing a conditional if-then-else expression, playing a notification sound, opening a specified GUI screen, purging a buffer, refreshing a displayed GUI screen or saving a value to the buffer.

18. The method of claim 13 wherein each of said markup language elements of said set is an instance of the same markup language element.