Automatic display script and style sheet generation

• US 6,668,354 B1
• Filed: 01/05/1999
• Issued: 12/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cohen, Mitchell A., Chen, Shyh-Kwei, Chung, Jen-Yao, Fu, Shiwa S., Gottemukkala, Vibby
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Sanjiv
• Assistant Examiner(s): DESAI, RACHNA SINGH
• Application Number:
  US09/225,815
• Time in Patent Office: 1,813 Days
• Field of Search: 707/517, 707/522, 707/513, 707/530, 715/513, 715/517, 715/522, 715/530
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/221 Parsing markup language streams streaming G06F40/149

Abstract

A system for automatically generating a style sheet includes a parser for generating a document type graph in accordance with an input structure, a graphical user interface tool for interactively mapping the document type graph to form a display template in accordance with user requirements and a script generator for generating and storing the style sheet in accordance with the graphical user interface and the design template.

Claims

1. A system for automatically generating a style sheet comprising:

a parser for generating a document type graph in accordance with an input structure;

a graphical user interface tool for interactively mapping the document type graph to form a display template in accordance with user requirements; and

a script generator for generating the style sheet in accordance with the graphical user interface and display template.

2. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the input structure is a data type definition (DTD) written in extensible markup and language (XML).

3. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the parser is a data type definition parser and the document type graph includes a data type definition (DTD) graph.

4. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein the document type graph includes nodes representing data types.

5. The system as recited in claim 4 wherein the nodes are capable of being manipulated such that the data type represented by the node is represented at a location to which the node is manipulated.

6. The system as recited in claim 4 wherein the nodes are capable of having their properties altered by graphically activating the nodes of the graph.

7. The system as recited in claim 1 further comprises abbreviation tables for converting abbreviations of the document type graph to full text to be displayed.

8. The system as recited in claim 1 further comprises pop-up windows and layers provided by activating predetermined portions of the style sheet.

9. The system as recited in claim 1 further comprises dynamic tables having dimensions determined upon rendering the style sheet.