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Eugene Veselov

Alex Mogilevsky

Markus W Mielke

Nicholas Randall Waggoner

Rossen Atanassov

Jonathan E Rivers-Moore

Sebastian Poulose

Phil Cupp

Erik Daniel Anderson

Paul Stephen Gildea

Christopher Lyman Jones

Kathy Carper

Koti Kiran Chegondi

Content can be flowed through one or more containers that can be laid out analogously to printed material. Content is flowed into the first specified container until that container is 'full' of content. Subsequent content is then flowed through subsequent containers, each of which is individually identified, and whose ordering is specified independently of their position and visual presentation. Multiple independent sources of content can be flowed through multiple independent collections of containers. Each container can format the content presented within it independently from other containers, and each container can comprise script, or other programmatic constructs, which can operate on, and modify, the content flowed into such a container. To provide for the rich layouts, content containers can be nested inside one another such that multiple layers, or levels, of the layout can be edited independently of one another.

Content flow through containers

Presentation of accessible content is in accordance with a grid established by rules independent of the content. Different rules establish different grids utilizable with the same content, thereby enabling proper formatting across a wide range of devices and displays. The rules provide for fixed size and auto sized column widths and row heights. Additionally, the rules provide for column widths and row heights size based on fractional weighting of the remaining space after the fixed size and auto sized grid members are accounted for. The grid establishes a coordinate system onto which content is 'hung' by aligning an aspect of the content with a coordinate point. Content is hung by reference to its beginning, its end, its center point, or, alternatively, content can be specified to be stretched to fit the width of the column and the height of the row with which it is associated.

Rule-based grid independent of content

A system and method capable of identifying that a node of an extensible markup language (XML) document is editable using an element of an electronic-form template is described. In at least some embodiments, the system and method are capable of determining operations that are permitted for the identified node using another element of the electronic-form template.

Systems and methods for editing XML documents

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Eugene Veselov