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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2003
Max D. Carlson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oliver W. Steele, Brookline, MA (US);
Adam G. Wolff, San Francisco, CA (US);
Max D. Carlson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oliver W. Steele, Brookline, MA (US);
Adam G. Wolff, San Francisco, CA (US);
Laszlo Systems, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing information by merging of an arbitrarily shaped data source with an arbitrary display hierarchy, including binding data in a source data file to application or content code. In one embodiment, the data source is an XML data file and the application is a rich Internet application provided by a presentation server. The method includes the steps of providing a structured data file; and merging the structured data file with a source file, the source file including at least one display element definition including an expression that refers to an arbitrary position or range within the data file. In another aspect, the invention is an apparatus. The apparatus includes one or more storage devices, and one or more processors in communication with said one or more storage devices. In this aspect, the processors perform a method comprising the steps of: accessing a mark-up language description of said particular content including at least one declaration of data in an XML document; and compiling said mark-up language description of said particular content to create executable code that provides said particular content, said step of compiling is performed at said server in response to said request.