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Shuk-Yan Lai

Matthew Jay Kotler

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Jean Paoli

Laurent Mollicone

Thomas R Lawrence

Sharma K Hendel

Jason Whitmarsh

Scott M Roberts

Brian Teutsch

Joshua S Bell

Jun Jin

David Matthew Snow

Nicholas K Dallett

Willson Kulandai-Raj David

Aleksandr Tysbert

A system and method that enables a designer to build electronic forms and corresponding hierarchical schemas are described. Displays of hierarchical schemas, electronic forms, and components used to build the hierarchical schemas and electronic forms are provided to the designer. The designer selects components and arranges them on a display to visually build an electronic form. As the form is built, the corresponding hierarchical schema is incrementally updated to reflect changes made to the electronic form.

Incrementally designing electronic forms and hierarchical schemas

Systems and/or methods ('tools') are described that convert or present conversion problems for electronic documents. The tools may convert a generally unstructured electronic document to a generally structured electronic document using non-visual textual and layout information of the unstructured document. The tools can also present possible problems with this or other types of conversion. And the tools can enable a user to alter an electronic document's schema without altering its visual layout.

Enabling selection of an inferred schema part

System and method for designing electronic forms and hierarchical schemas

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