METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIEWING electronic COMMERCE-RELATED DOCUMENTS

• US 20140095983A1
• Filed: 10/15/2013
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: DAVIDSON, Andrew Everett, SCHWARZHOFF, Kelly Lane, HERRI, Gunawan, ZHU, Changyi, KRISH, Ari, SULISTIO, Mulijadi, LEE, Sun Keun
• Granted Patent: US 9,262,388 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/236
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access

Abstract

The present invention includes a method of providing users with formatted access to XML and similar documents received from trading partners using a general purpose viewer or browser. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.

Claims

1. A method including:

defining in a first module of an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) style sheet a module-referencing variable to hold a string corresponding to a universal resource indicator (URI);

assigning to the module-referencing variable a string corresponding to a URI at runtime and subsequent to initialization of the first module;

the first module referencing an XSLT style sheet module based on the module-referencing variable; and

applying the referenced module to generate an output.

2. A method including:

defining a conditional syntax for including an external segment of Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) code from disk in an XSLT style sheet;

parsing the XSLT style sheet utilizing the conditional syntax;

determining whether a condition specified in the conditional syntax succeeds or fails; and

loading the external segment of XSLT code from disk if the condition succeeds.