Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shiu-Kai Lee

William James Griffin

Ning Zhang

Sterling John Crockett

Arul Murugan Kumaravel

Victor Grigoriu

Rajivk Kumar

Error checking for web documents may be provided. Text errors within a web page are identified by determining text to be error checked within content used in generating a web page and by determining where the text is located within the web page. The text is sent to an error checking module, and errors are displayed to a user.

Error checking web documents

Detection and indication of inaccessible resources associated with a webpage is disclosed. Dependent resource identifiers are generated. The identifiers facilitate the query of a resource database to ascertain the status of dependent resources. The status of the dependent resources facilitates the marking of the resources in the webpage, and/or the generation of a report that indicates the status of dependent resources. An interface is provided so an author may easily ascertain the status of a dependent resource before publication of a webpage. In this manner, an author may easily and efficiently ascertain dependent resources that are subject to security right issues and/or versioning issues before publishing a webpage.

Detection of inaccessible resources

A publishing interface is provided for a user to publish content to a content management server (CMS). The content is authored on a work station by way of an authoring application operating thereon and includes a main body and at least one linked object. Each linked object is linked to the main body by a local pointer therein. The CMS is for effectuating a web site including the published content. The publishing interface has a client-side component working with the application and a server-side component working with the CMS. The client-side component resolves each local pointer to a linked object in the main body, converts the main body into a pre-determined format as determined by the selected task, and forwards the converted main body and each linked object thereof to the server-side component. The server-side component stores the converted main body and the linked objects in the CMS.

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