Method and apparatus for document processing

• US 8,661,332 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2004
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Dunietz, Jerry, Jazdzewski, Charles P., Ornstein, David, Relyea, Rob, Foehr, Oliver H., Hillberg, Michael J., Ternasky, Joseph D., Little, Robert A., Anderson, Christopher L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): LUDWIG, MATTHEW J
• Application Number:
  US10/837,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20050251735A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,588 Days
• Field of Search: 715/513, 715/501.1, 715522-524, 715/500, 715/234, 715/237, 715/209
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71

Abstract

Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that enable software and hardware systems to generate, exchange, and display documents reliably and consistently. The framework and format have been designed in a flexible and extensible fashion. In addition to this general framework and format, a particular format, known as the reach package format, is defined using the general framework. The reach package format is a format for storing paginated documents. The contents of a reach package can be displayed or printed with full fidelity among devices and applications in a wide range of environments and across a wide range of scenarios.

Claims

1. A hardware system comprising:

one or more computer-readable media;

software instructions resident on the media which, when executed, are capable of enabling the hardware system to represent a document with a markup representation, wherein the document comprises part of a package that contains multiple payloads, each payload acting as a different representation of the document, the markup representation comprising;

a first element that controls how an application reacts to an unknown attribute;

a second element that declares that an associated namespace is ignorable;

a third element that specifies behavior for ignorable content;

a fourth element that reverses the effect of a namespace declared ignorable;

a fifth element that specifies content that may be substituted for preferred content if the preferred content is unknown and the preferred content is associated with a namespace requiring that items must be understood; and

a sixth element that specifies to document editing tools whether individual attributes in an ignorable namespace should be preserved when the document is modified.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the markup representation is an XML markup representation.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the markup representation is based on namespace uniform resource identifiers.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the markup representation allows documents using new markup features to be handled by an application that does not understand the new markup features.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the application is a reader application.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the application is a parser.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the behavior for ignorable content includes ignoring all content associated with a particular attribute.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the behavior for ignorable content includes:

ignoring a particular attribute; and

ignoring all content associated with the particular attribute.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the behavior for ignorable content includes:

ignoring content associated with a particular attribute; and

processing content nested within the particular attribute.