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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1997
Peiya Liu, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Liang-Hua Hsu, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Sean Daniel Frank Sullivan, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Kenneth Hampel, Yardley, PA (US);
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system that automatically restructures SGML documents into a format referred to as card-based documents is based on a Card Layout Style Specification Language (CLSSL). The CLSSL controls the information, arrangement, sequencing, and presentation features of the cards. The system includes a scroll-card transformer, a media-card extractor, a card style editor, a platform-independent generator and a platform dependent generator. SGML documents are first transformed in scroll-card transformer into cards based on various scroll-to-card transformation guidelines. The non-textual media that are associated with textual documents are also transformed in the media-card extractor by extracting a portion of the information for individual cards. Once the textual and non-textual documents are transformed properly into cards, the card layout style editor is used to create the formatting commands, referred to as Card Layout Style Specifications (CLSS), for each type of card in the card-based manual. The card-based SGML manual together with a card layout style specification file is then processed by a presentation formatter to generate a platform-dependent format for the presentation tool.