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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1999
Michael Haden Conner, Austin, TX (US);
Matthew Dale Mcclain, Austin, TX (US);
Lin Xu, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Haden Conner, Austin, TX (US);
Matthew Dale McClain, Austin, TX (US);
Lin Xu, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A table format object is used to format a dynamic HTML table at a web server. To facilitate the development of a dynamic server page for use in serving the dynamic table, first and second representations are created and made available for display to a page developer, e.g., in a web browser. The first representation illustrates how the HTML table will appear when formatted on a page by the table format object. The first representation includes given table attribute elements. The second representation is preferably online documentation for the table format object that includes, for each table attribute element, a set of methods that are available on the table format object. According to the invention, a given table attribute in the first representation is bidirectionally linked to its corresponding set of methods in the second representation to enable the developer to easily identify how given attributes in the table behave and how to resolve potential conflicts between these attributes.