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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2002
Sharon C. Adler, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Anders L R Berglund, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Donald Jon Boulia, Apex, NC (US);
Thomas Joseph Brawn, Apex, NC (US);
D. Kirk Grotjohn, Cary, NC (US);
Kristoffer H. Rose, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Sharon C. Adler, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Anders L R Berglund, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Donald Jon Boulia, Apex, NC (US);
Thomas Joseph Brawn, Apex, NC (US);
D. Kirk Grotjohn, Cary, NC (US);
Kristoffer H. Rose, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method (and system) for editing rules contained in a first document, where the rules define a transformation of data on a second document and where the first document and second document have elements constructed in a tree structure having nodes, each rule having a template structure including at least one match condition, the match condition being an expression in the template that describes a subset of tree nodes, includes selecting at least one rule in the first document and checking a match condition of the user-selected rule with the tree nodes from the second document to determine which structures in the second document match the selected rule.