TW525088B - Method and apparatus for generating structured documents for various presentations - Google Patents

Abstract

The use of identifiers in user-defined document type definitions is disclosed for converting unstructured documents to structured documents. The identifiers in user-defined document type definitions are used to associate selected objects or group objects in the unstructured documents so that association information of the selected objects or group objects can facilitate the generation of files in a markup language suitable for presentations on various media.

Description

A7 525088 5. Description of the invention () Related applications: This application has been filed on January 31, 2000, 31st, and has identified a provisional patent application No. 60/1 79,330, entitled "Method and Apparatus for

"Generating Structured Documents with User-defined Document Type Definitions Using Structure-based Font Information" is hereby incorporated into this case for reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates generally to the field of document processing and electronic publishing systems, and more particularly to a type of application. The method and device for generating structured components based on user-defined file type definitions. The present invention also relates to a mechanism that allows users to use the method and device to convert unstructured files in various ways The unstructured text # 令 μ is another piece of information that I have assembled, cataloged, processed, or managed through a editing application (ie, word processing). Related technical description: Internet Department Rapid growth] Wang Zhuo interconnected computer communication network. And millions of interconnected computers still constitute a large repository of hyperlinked information, and can be used by any part of the world ^ ^ ^ ^ 仃 time Access to all connected computers. You have created tens of thousands of .. ^ pages and added to this huge repository, so one This kind of major demand, I will sign a female ^ ^ will be like a newspaper, trial spreadsheet or brochure ♦ another piece, quickly and easily transferred .. ^ ^ ^ Danzai can be used by others on the Internet. The format expressed by a computer. It is now known that the performance of a web browser application (such as a browser) is better than that of the paper money on page 4. W -------- Order ----- ---- Line J (Please read the notes on the back before filling out this page) Printed by the Employees 'Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Printed by the Employees' Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 525088 A7 -------- B7 5. Description of the invention (The appropriate format is according to the markup language, such as "Hypertext Markup Language (html)," "Extensible Markup Language (XML)", "Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)" or "Wireless Markup Language (WML) ) ", Etc. The files or documents of the web browsing application formed, edited or managed in this way can be generically referred to as structured files or documents. Among all the benefits of structured documents, user-defined file type definitions can be provided (DTD) or documentary laws define the ability to create new information Change or store the model. However, the challenge lies in how to generate structured files based on user-defined DTDs. Can they be unstructured files or converted from structured files with other types of DTDs? To generate an unstructured file with specific rules. There are a variety of editors for generating structured files. These editors include Adobe FrameMaker, Arbortext, and SftQuadXmetal. These editors usually provide a structured window with a word processing window, where the word processing window is the traditional word processing environment used for unstructured documents, and the structured window contains data defined in a DTD The file structure of the unit. To generate a structured document from a manuscript in these editors, the user will generally need to generate an unstructured document in the document processing window. When the desired DU is loaded, the user constructs a file structure tree in the structure window according to the file units defined in the DTD. Generally, the user performs various processing procedures by copying or dragging and dropping each file unit from the generated file into the file structure tree. To convert structured files with _dtd in these editors page 5 --------------------- ^ --------- line — (Please read the precautions on the back before filling this page) A7 525088 5. Description of the invention (Into another DTD, the user needs to load the structured file, delink it, and remove the labels and attributes of each file unit from a DTD Modify it to another, cook you ..., " cross / combine each file unit or analyze the new file unit associated with the redefined text in the new DTD, and leave it alone to 7C. Among the many as mentioned above In the program, the relationship between the virtual π /, the unit and the unit of each data unit is indeed relevant for the generation or conversion of an unstructured or socially-named document into a structured document with a specific DTD. μ Wei is critical and laborious to handle the job. Nowadays, many methods have been proposed to correlate data and file units, and simplify the production of the structured file for production. For example, the key extraction method Can extract text from unstructured documents ^, 卞 ,, .. Key expressions of structure 'and use key The word / character pair comes to the correlation between each document in your office and the data unit. An equivalence method ^ Jitian sorts the coordinates of each document, and sorts each data unit and each text-meaning 1〒Saoyuan The language tags of the dictionaries are related to each other. A logical structure method ^ / 『Analyze the file structure by comparing the pre-learning styles, and analyze each data unit according to the analyzed units. Then the above None of the various methods can be used. "I want to use identifiers (such as taro-type information) to correlate each data unit with the document list. Therefore, a general method is needed, which can be defined by the use of the document. Identifier information inside, each data unit and the text _ native to generate structured documents. Interrelation In addition, the items required by each exemplary editor are also redundant Jg 耗 annoying, meanwhile mean High cost. Often, a company that has j or items to be added for conversion needs to be outsourced because of the lack of efficiency of the conversion process. Fang,,, from — service for page 6 This paper size applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 male f • II 丨 -II 丨 --- i-·-— — — — — — «— — — — — — I— 1 IC Please read the notes on the back before filling out this page} Printed by the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Consumer Cooperatives 525088

V. Description of the Invention (4) The conversion process performed by the quotient is also not easy to quantify, because this mainly involves manual and repetitive processing operations that depend on the complexity of each document. Therefore, another mechanism is needed, which can According to the method of cost calculation, the conversion of I and settlement donation documents into structured documents of various expressions is quantified. The present invention is made by taking into account the aforementioned problems and needs, and for the Internet Various expressions on the road have specific applicability. One of the features of the present invention is to use identifiers in the DTD file to associate selected objects or groups of objects. Markup language archives of expressions on the media. The present invention can be implemented in methods, systems, products, or other actual forms. According to a specific embodiment, the present invention can be a method. The method receives a file type definition ( DTD) definition file, and display a super file together with the definition file, where the super file contains several displayable Display object 'and its various decorative attributes about each of these displayable objects. The definition eaves plan includes the structure of each file unit, each corresponding to one of the displayable objects in the superfile. Part of the file unit Contains several identifiers' Each of these identifiers is assigned to one of these document units. In a consistent operation, 'these identifiers are numbers and / or letters. In other implementations,' these identifiers can be font names, One or more of the color name, size, font style, color, style, various effects, or other symbols. This method can associate at least one identifier with one of these displayable objects. Page 7 This paper applies to Chinese countries Standard (CNS) A4 size mo X 297 mm) (Please read the notes on the back before filling this page) 碥

Order --------- Line J Printed by the Consumer Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 525088 A7 __ _ B7 V. Description of Invention (). According to another specific embodiment, the present invention can be implemented as a method for providing file conversion processing. The method includes activating a counting system with an encoding system to convert an unstructured file into a super eaves case. The plan contains several displayable objects, and the decorative attributes of each of the displayable objects, and receives a definition file containing a definition of the file type of the unstructured document; a modified superfile is generated, and the superfile Contains correlation information with at least one of the displayable objects related to each definition in the definition file, and when the modified hyperslot case needs to be stored, the counter is incremented. According to the later description and description to implement the present invention, the purpose and advantages can be achieved, and the description can be reduced together, and the specific embodiments as shown in the accompanying drawings are obtained. Brief description of the drawings: Refer to the following description, the scope of the attached patent application, and the accompanying drawings for a clearer understanding of the functions, features, and advantages of the present disclosure. Figure 1A shows a basic system group. The present invention can be implemented according to a preferred embodiment; FIG. 1B shows the internal building blocks of a system, in which the present invention can be implemented and implemented to obtain the desired result considered by the present invention; Figure 2A is an example of an unstructured document, which can be combined, edited, or managed by an editing tool; Figure 2B is an example of a document type definition (DTD); Page 8 This paper standard applies Chinese National Standards (CNS ) A4 size (210 X 297 mm) (Please read the notes on the back before filling this page) --------- Order --------- line η Staff of Intellectual Property Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs Printed by Consumer Cooperatives

Printed by the Intellectual Property Bureau's Consumer Cooperatives of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 525088 5. Description of the invention (Figure 2C is shown in Figure C? I. I. A unstructured document shown in Figure A, according to the type definition in Figure 2B) DTD) structured document; FIG. 3A is a functional diagram of a specific embodiment of the present invention according to too strict; FIG. 3B shows a video environment implementing a conversion module according to a specific embodiment of the present invention ; Figure C ~, an example of the manuscript style designed in XML format based on the displayable objects in the super file shown in Figure 3B; Figure 3D is an exemplary message from Dongle. Figure 3E_show—a flow chart of a method using a conversion mold according to a specific embodiment of the present invention and a product that is abusive; Figure iC 'Block material processing device block diagram, which can use the structure of basic words Type information and user-defined DTD, input, edit and convert unstructured or structured documents to convert them into structured documents; Figure 5 is as defined in Figure 2 and dtD and font attributes Correlation form for file units; Figure 6 shows As shown in the unstructured document editing results in Figure 1, each parsed data unit has been assigned font attributes based on the correlation in Figure 5; Figure 7 shows a conversion processing method, which can The parsed data unit in Figure 6 is converted into the desired structured document according to the exemplary DTD in Figure 2B; Figure 8 is an intermediate structured document that contains the parsed data unit and a font file unit List of assigned font IDs; page 9 This paper size applies Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 (210 X 297 mm) (Please read the precautions on the back before filling out this page) • 0 --- -

Order --------- line J 525088 Printed by the Consumer Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 5. Description of the invention (A7 B? Figure 9 shows a conversion processing method, which can intermediate the structure in Figure 6 + & In Figure 2, Dtd is converted into the desired structured file; and Figure 10 shows that the implementation of the embedding method in Figure 9 using the extended style language (XSLT) is not converted by Greenfield. Drawing number: Comparative explanation: 100 computer 102 computing device 104 service server 106 desktop computer 108 data network 110 private network 120 data bus 122 central processing unit (CPU) 124 device interface 126 display interface 128 network interface 130 Printer interface 132 Main memory 134 Read-only memory 136 Storage device 138 Floppy drive interface 140 Keyboard 142 Pointing device 200 Unstructured part 208 File type definition 210 File unit 302 Conversion module 302 Association mode Group 306 Integrated module 308 Counter 310 Modified super file 320 Environment 322 Display 32 4 Display screen 326 Group object 328 DTD Pool (ware type definition store.) 330 XML tree 332 File unit "Title" Page 10 This paper standard · CNS aT ^ (21〇 _; 3 mm) (Please read the precautions on the back before filling this page)-· n ϋ -ϋ —i ϋ ϋ ^ OJ ϋ ϋ ϋ nn I-525088 A7 B7 V. Description of the invention (400 functional area Block diagram 404 data processing module 408 file 334 "data" 402 file database 4 0 6 input module 4 1 0 editing module 4 1 2 correlation form of file unit and word attribute 4 1 4 conversion or filtering module 4 1 6 Mapping rules based on font attributes and file units 4 1 8 Unstructured / structured files, super archives, file database 502 file unit 500 correlation table 504 component attributes 508 Font style 5 1 2 Font size 600 Edit result 6 04 Object 6 0 8 Object 6 1 2 Object 802 Contains a single font style with specific font attributes 51 〇 Font color 5 1 4 Font effect 602 Object 6 0 6 Object 6 1 0 Objects 6 1 4 Objects “Font” Unit Intellectual Property Bureau Staff of the Ministry of Economic Affairs The printing company 804 contains the parsed data unit 808 with the "font-xD" attribute. The structured file is described in detail in the invention: In the detailed description of the present invention, there is a set of detailed information for the sake of clarity. this invention. However, for those skilled in the art, it is possible to make the present invention without these specific details. In other standards, page 11 of this paper applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (21〇X 297 mm) ---------- ί-0 -------- order- ------- line "threat- | (please read the precautions on the back before filling in this page) 525088 A7 V. Description of the invention () In the example 'for the well-known method to avoid the service lee v # ， elements and The circuit has not been described in detail, and the sequence and characteristics of the Luoxu factory are fully developed. This detailed description is based on the sequence of each lane, processing tasks, and other aspects of the performance of I, ^, and other payers. The method described in "Can " Grounding represents the two items of remote control that are connected to the Internet, and they are all v and n of the processing equipment of the valley. It is now known as this skill. People use this method as an effective way to pass on their work. ^ Other people who are familiar with this art. The term "a specific embodiment _ _, Λ ,," "and stay specific implementation examples" means ^ Specific functions, structures, or features described in relation to specific embodiments will be described. : Within at least one specific embodiment of the present invention. Throughout this specification, "" 1 "in a specific embodiment" does not necessarily mean the same and specific embodiment, and different or alternatives are mutually exclusive to other specific embodiments. In addition, It indicates that the present invention,%, expresses one or more specific embodiments, "Processing the order of blocks in a Wanfa flowchart or diagram, which does not inherently indicate any specific order, nor does it imply any limitation in the present invention. Reference is made to various drawings, wherein similar reference numbers refer to similar parts in various views of the entire article. Figure 1A shows a basic system configuration in which the present invention can be implemented according to a preferred embodiment. It can be used Editing tools running on a computer 100 to generate unstructured files such as product manuals, feature sheets, and price lists. Files or files generated by the editing tools are called unstructured files. Exemplary Editing tools can include

Microsoft Office (i.e., Microsoft Word, Microsof

PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel), Adobe FrameMaker, and

Adobe Photoshop. These unstructured documents can be uploaded as the central page. This paper size applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 male f) (Please read the precautions on the back before filling this page) ---- ---- Order · ---------^ «Printed by the Employees 'Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Printed by the Employees' Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Printed by 525088 A7 ____ B7 V. Description of the Invention () Depository ^ Computing device 102. The computing device 102 may be a server platform sold by Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) or a desktop computer loaded with a compiled # and linked version to implement a specific embodiment of the present invention. In a setting method, the computer 100 and the computing device 102 are indivisible, and execute a file conversion process to generate a structured file that can be finally expressed in a format such as XML or HTML markup language. . In an application method, these structured documents represented by XML will be converted into HTML format and can be connected via a private network to a site that predominantly refers to www (Global Information Network) Service server 1104. In one case, the user can access the files on the service server 104 by using a desktop computer 106 that controls the browser application and is coupled to the data network 108. These are represented by a structured document in the computing device 丨 02 (the file represents the latest product information created by a editing tool. That is, as explained in detail below, the present invention is not limited to Internet applications. The It can also be implemented on individual computers where users often produce documents according to different word processing formats such as FrameMaker or Microsoft Word. The present invention can be used to convert documents into a representation of marks' regardless of the accuracy What is the word processing format? Figure 1B shows the internal building blocks of a system 118 that can implement and implement the present invention. The system 1 8 can correspond to a client device (eg, a computer 100, 102, or 106) or a server Device (ie, such as the server 104). Page 13 of this paper applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 male f) -------- I ------ ------- Order --------- Line— (Please read the notes on the back before filling this page) 525088 A7 B7 V. Description of the invention () (Please read the notes on the back before (Fill in this page) As shown in Figure 1B, the system 118 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 122, which is connected to a data bus 120 and a device interface 124. The CPU 122 can execute some instructions to manage all devices and interfaces coupled to the data bus 120, for synchronous operation, and the device interface 124 It can be coupled to an external device like a computer 102. If so, the file sent from it will be stored in the memory or storage device via the data bus 120. Moreover, the display interface 126, The network interface 128, the printer interface 130, and the floppy drive interface 138 are also connected to the data bus 120. Generally, the floppy drive interface 138, the network interface 128, the device interface 124, or other interfaces can be used. At the interface of the data bus 12 0, the compiled and linked version of the one embodiment of the present invention is loaded into the storage device 1 36. The consumer cooperative of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs prints it as random storage The main memory 1 32 of the fetch memory (RAM) is also connected to the data bus 120 to provide various instructions of the CPU 122, and can access the memory storage device 1 3 6 to obtain data and other instructions. ... especially when implementing When the application program instructions are put on, like the compiled and linked version of the present invention, the CPU 122 will be driven to manipulate the data to obtain the results considered by the present invention. Here is provided R 0 M (read-only memory ) 1 3 4 to store the invariant instruction sequence, such as the basic input / output operating system (BI0s) for the keyboard 140, display 126 and (if any) pointing device 142 to operate. Figure 2A illustrates an edited by a 200 unstructured documents created, edited or managed by the tool. In an unstructured file, it is usually presented in a sequential manner, and this is usually followed by a read command (ie, top to bottom, left to right). This sequence can be dissected into a large number of pages. This paper size is suitable for financial and family care (CNS) A4 specifications (210x 297 male f) ------ 525088 A7 B7 V. Consumer Cooperatives, Intellectual Property Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs Description of printed clothing invention (7 ^ section of bill of materials, in which each data unit 102 will be assigned to decorative attributes or information 'such as position, font color, font size, font style, style and various effects Etc. The purpose of the decoration information is basically to 'get proper arrangement and performance when the editing tool opens the file containing the data unit for display on a display screen.' According to a specific embodiment, one The structured document will be printed as a super file format containing general decoration information. The example of this super file format is the portable material format (PDF) used by everyone. The advantages of this super file format The independence of the editing tool and the computer makes it possible to open or read the super file format equally in various environments. Structured files such as SGML and XML are defined in file format (DTD) To start. Picture 2B says A "recipe type," a dtd 208 example of a file, which breaks the file into many file unit structures. Its special unit 2 1 0 can contain other file units and attributes. Another example of the file unit is Contains only parsed character data. Figure 2C does not correspond to the structured file converted from the unstructured file 200 in Figure 2A according to Dtd 2 08 in Figure 2B. The data sequence in the unstructured file will be parsed into many data units related to each file unit defined in the DTD of the structured file. Unlike unstructured files, structured files can simply be structured I received some miscellaneous funds through each file unit. The expression of the broadcast document is usually defined in a separate style document, that is, if the style is private according to the exposure order ( CSS) 'Or the extensibility of formatted objects.' ^ Developed by XSL-FO, page 15. This paper size applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 meals) ---- ------! φ (Please read the notes on the back first Complete this page) book --------- line · 1 # · A7 B7

525088 Fifth, the description of the invention () writer, this can explain the arrangement of each file unit. This function > allows structured documents to be presented through different styles of documents and in different arrangements of different media. Generally speaking, 'the decoration information or format attributes, such as ~ font information in an unstructured document', will be converted to the corresponding social organization unless it is defined as a document unit attribute in the DTD. Discard the structured file. Further formatting modifications often do not affect converted structured documents. FIG. 3A illustrates a functional diagram 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention. A conversion module 302 is composed of an associated module 302 and an integrated module 306. The association module 302 receives an unstructured file, preferably in a hyperfile format. At the same time, the association module 302 will also receive a file containing a pre-defined DTD, which is referred to as a definition file. Generally, the DTD is defined according to the nature or purpose of the unstructured document. For example, the unstructured file belongs to a receiving category, that is, a file as shown in FIG. 2A, and the DTD in the definition file as shown in FIG. 2B is designed based on the “receiving type” file. In order to further understand the association module 302, FIG. 3B shows an environment 320 implementing the conversion module 302 according to a specific embodiment of the present invention. The environment 320 includes two display screens 322 and 324 for users. Perform the conversion of unstructured documents to a design in accordance with the markup language (herein referred to as the signboard + eaves case). The screen 3 2 2 is used to display the unstructured file. In a preferred embodiment, a super-file version of the unstructured file is loaded for display. A super file, hereby referred to as unstructured document or page 16. The paper size is applicable to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) 1II1 ----— — — — — ----- --- ^ · I ------- 7 Γ Jing first read the precautions on the back before filling out this page) Printed by the Consumers ’Cooperative of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 525088 Printed by the Consumer ’s Cooperative of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs A7 Five 2. Description of the invention () Printed version '-generally contains 717 objects. Each object is a cluster of words or graphics——, and as shown in picture 322, it is ... limit, people change the spoon and say, 'Each object is composed of many types including: force', the type of the object, The attributes such as size, color, and position, or decoration are defined by Bexun, so that the J is printed correctly. Several objects can be grouped manually by the user according to their meaning or:,:. For example, the group object 326 includes three character types G_, "CaΓ" and "Salsa". Naturally, these three character objects «can constitute a title of the group object ... can be matched ^ Within the surface 322_ does not constitute the grouping of objects in the rest of the superstructure case. The surface 324 疋 is used to display the case of the footpath prepared by the superfile displayed in the screen 322. It is for the benefit of related models For group 302 operations, the term < 口 / 万 式 主 is now DTD p00001 "328. For example, the graphic representation of the internal beta 208 in the second beta diagram may be used by the screen 324 to illustrate the hierarchical relationship between the file units. According to a specific embodiment that will eventually convert the hypertext to XML, an auxiliary XML tree 330 will be generated from the "DTDP00i" 328. The child-assisted XML tree 33 also shows a hierarchical relationship between the file units. In addition, each of the file units will be assigned an identifier that includes, but is not limited to, such as number, name, subtype%, subtype, type name, or color identifier. In a specific embodiment, the identifier is in the shell material of each file unit. In order to associate the group object 326 with a file unit, page 17 --------------------- Order ------------- -------------------- (Please read the note on the back? Matters before filling out this page) Member of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs X Consumer Cooperatives printed A7 Five N Invention Description ( The title "332" will trigger the "data 334" when the group of objects 326 is selected. One feature of the present invention is that it can associate the group of objects to the "data," a base of the identifier in the "data," 334 Relevance. In particular, in a specific embodiment, if the identifier in "Data, 334 is a color operator, that is, green '(green)", the group object 326 will be highlighted in green to indicate This group object is already associated with it. If the sub-system-font, "Arial", is identified, 3% of the group object will be emphasized according to the Arial style to indicate that the group object is already associated Similarly to the DTD, the group object 340 may be clicked on the "ingredient," = identifiers associated with the data 342, and the group object 344 may be clicked on the "number (amoun t) ,, and is associated with the identifier in the data 346, etc. Therefore, the superfile in the screen 322 has been cut, and each of the displayable objects in it can be associated with the loaded by an identifier File unit in the DTD. The screen 322 now has a modified superstructure 31, and an example of this can be described in detail later. Now referring to Figure 3A, a modified superfile 31 is Enter into module 306, and then further receive a style document. Style documents are usually configured to include mapping rules, which are based on the appearance of each Species exemplary media are browsers (such as

Internet Expl ° rer) The accessible web page representation. Therefore, the file is written in a markup language such as HTML or XML, and is referred to as the "standard β S and T case." Page 18 This paper size applies the Zhongguanjia Standard (CNS) A4 specification (21G X 297). f ---------- ^ ----------- ^ ------------- ^ _ wl ^ ------------- ----------- (Please read the notes on the back before filling in this page} 525088 A7 —----- B7 ____ V. Description of the invention () ^ Figures, ..., show one such basis An example of a style manuscript in which the displayables in the hyperfile are designed in XML format. Generally speaking, a style manuscript is designed to determine the position of each object individually; color or ":" Appropriate and compelling expression for a particular media. The example in Figure 3 has been designed to present "Recipe H, I pieces and, when loaded, allows the modified superfile to produce an appropriate ™ L 'wood In other words, the integration module 306 can generate an xml file from the modified super file according to the style document. As given here = description, it should be noted that it is not necessary to input the style document To the positive mouth group 306 & in an implementation In the formula, the mapping rules can be loaded into the million DTD scheme, so that the integrated module 3G6 executes the mapping operation from the modified super file to a markup language file according to the loaded DTD file. According to a specific embodiment, the conversion module 302 is implemented by software and can be distributed to each user or service provider as an application program. This month from an unstructured document to a The conversion processing of markup language files is not easy to be customized according to the cost determination method. The conversion module 302 contains a counter 308. In a specific embodiment, the counter 308 is set to calculate the super file The number of web pages to be added. As long as every object in the screen (such as a page screen) is associated with each file unit in a DTD file, and it is archived as a corresponding modified super file The counter 3 will increment the value. Figure 3d shows examples of counting results stored in a dongle. Dongle (pronounced DONG-uhl) is a mechanism to ensure that only authorized users can 19 pages of paper The dimensions are applicable to China National Standard (CNS) A4 (210 X 297 mm) (Please read the precautions on the back before filling this page) -I ------- 丨 Order · -------- I Printed by the Consumer Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Thailand 525088 A7 _ B7 V. Description of the Invention () Copy or use a specific software application, especially extremely expensive software. Common implementation methods of dongle include plugging in a computer The hardware key on the parallel or serial port, and the software will identify it before proceeding; the special discs picked up in a similar manner are picked up; and they are used at the factory or during system setup. 1 master book number loaded into some form of read-only memory. When the dongle needs to be reset, the conversion process can be evaluated in the manner of cost calculation. According to a specific embodiment, all the owners' of the product including the conversion module 3 can distribute the product to each user for free or at a very low cost. Generally, users will need to generate many web directories from unstructured files created, edited, or managed by various editing tools. One of the advantages of receiving the product in this way is that the user does not need to prepare a large amount of money to obtain the product before using the product. Each user can only pay for the use of the product. Therefore, one of the purposes of using a dongle with a conversion module 3 02 is to manage its use rights. Therefore, all owners of the product can control the use right of the product by controlling the dongle containing the usage information. Figure 3E is a flowchart of a method 370 for implementing a product by using the conversion module 302 according to a specific embodiment of the present invention. In some cases, the product is leased by the user or an enterprise. Alternatively, products are used by service providers that provide services to companies that need to transform unstructured files into structured files that behave in different media (ie, as presented on a website). Processing 370 starts at 372, that is, the super-building is generated from the edited documents. Page 20 This paper size applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) (Please read the precautions on the back before filling this page) -· Ϋ ϋ I emm§ «ϋ J, V ϋ · 1 ϋ ϋ ϋ I t Printed by the Consumer Property Cooperative of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Maternity and Economy 525088 A7 V. Description of the invention () ^ 件 通 f 'or use—kind More editing tools to prepare the two warp knitting pieces. That is, as mentioned above, it is best to obtain the over-standards from the warped document = and = so that the conversion module 3G2 does not need to be individually configured for each different edit. However, ′ should be noted that it tends to :: belongs to the inherent limitation of the present invention, but can make the conversion module 3.2 to 2 more effective. For those skilled in this art, they should be able to understand that a conversion gauge NP drive can be configured to accommodate any type of edited files or generate such super files. Once these super files are obtained, the temple is loaded into a video environment: where these super files can be displayed individually. The environment 320 in the figure is applicable. Here, you can load each page of 木 田木 for display. ^ Processing 370 allows the user to initiate a shot before the next step: right processing 3 7 8 to ensure that you | γ, the user in the warranty 4 is operating an authorized product. That is, as mentioned above, an exemplary authorization method is performed by providing / owning / controlling the product (d. Preset by the enterprise or distributor.). If the authorization process 378 indicates that the process 370 is not authorized, then A screen is usually displayed to the user to explain how the product needs to be licensed. One of the procedures for setting the license 376 involves the conversion or misplacement of the number of allowed pages. According to the specific embodiment, one can be used to make Connect to a computer that executes the process 370. The dongle contains the first and second values. The -th value is a starting number, such as "1〇", and the second value is a limiting number, such as, This means that it can be processed and stored by this processing 37. _ ---------- ^ ------------ Order --------- line-win (please first Read the notes on the reverse side and fill out this page) -n ϋ nnnnn II a— II n Page 21 III-This paper size applies to China National Standard (CNS) A4 (210 X 297 mm 525088) Employees of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Printed by Consumer Cooperatives. A7 B7 Invention Description () page converted document. Once the process 370 has been allowed to proceed to 38 〇, the use | can now be based on, for example, its meaning or purpose and according to the loaded DTD file, set several displayable objects into multiple group objects, respectively, and ^ show near Zheng. At 382 纟These group objects can be associated with each definition in the dTD building case. At least part of the definition will have several identifiers, and preferably each identifier will be associated or assigned to one of the identifiers is That is, as explained before, the association between the selected object and the definition will be stored in a modified superfile. Before the process 37 allows the storage, it will be checked at 386. Counter. In a specific embodiment, the first and second values in dongle are compared. When the first value is approximately close to the second value, such as two identical values, the process 37 will ask To supplement the allowable amount. Generally, the user needs to have the company or dealer that charges based on the information in the dongle to reset or reset the dongle. At 384, the value is now reset and the process can be allowed. 37 〇 Forward. At 3 8 6 , A storage step may be performed. Depending on the actual implementation method, a modified super file or a markup language file may be stored in a storage space. The markup language file is in accordance with a predetermined media expression manner, depending on the style The manuscript is generated from the modified super file. It should be noted that in Figure 3E, the counter is checked only after 3 8.6, especially after 3 § 4. In fact, for those who are familiar with this technique As far as people are concerned, it is obvious that they can be inspected almost anywhere along the process 370. Page 22 This paper size applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) (Please read the notes on the back first (Fill in this page again) Order --------- line 丨, 525088 A7 B7 V. Description of the invention () or inquire about M counter. The purpose of using a counter here is to help the operator control and determine the usage status of the process 370, so as to determine the cost and charge accordingly. FIG. 4 shows a functional block diagram 400 of a data processing module 404 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The data processing module 404 included in the integration module 306 includes an input module 406, an editing module 410, and a conversion or filtering module 4 1 4. One of the functions performed by the data processing module 4 0 4 is to convert an unstructured file or a structured file with a different DTD into a corresponding structured file with a predetermined or specific DTD. The input module 406 loads files or input files from the file database 402. The file database corresponds to the storage in the computing device 102 as shown in FIG. 1A. Alternatively, the input module 406 can open a new file 408. It should be noted that the loaded or imported document may be unstructured (such as a superscript) or structured document, and in some cases may have some pre-created structured font information. The editing module 410 can communicate with the input module 406 and generate / edit the structural font information of the input files. This module can select the data units of the input document and provide an editing environment to replace the font attributes of each selected data unit, such as font style, font style, font color, font size, and font Effect, etc. The method of parsing these input files into data units and assigning each font attribute is based on the correlation form of each file unit as defined in the desired DTD and related font attributes 4 1 2. Figure 5 shows an exemplary correlation form for the DTD 41 2 on page 23. This paper size applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 male f) ---------- it (Please read the note on the back? Matters before filling out this page) Order --------- line · 丨. Printed by the Employees' Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Printed 525 〇88 A7 ------ gL___ 5. Description of the invention () 50,000 'It contains file unit 502, component attributes 504, font style 506, font style 508, font color 51. , Font size 512 and font effect 514. Figure 6 shows the edit result 600 of the unstructured file 200 as shown in Figure 2A. Each of the parsed data units or merged objects 602, 604, 606, 608, 610, 612, and 614 has already assigned font attributes according to the correlation table unit as shown in Figure 5, and respectively according to Related fonts. During the parsing process, this module can be used to allow the sequence selection of data units based on the reading order of the input file 602, and edit their font information. This module can also be used for regional groups of data units to edit other fonts ^ This module can also provide a supplementary review of the correlation form. The conversion or filtering module 4 1 4 can use the structural font information to convert the loaded document into a structured document with a user-defined document type definition (DTD). Here, each mapping rule based on these file units and transforming the quasi-type attributes of 4 i 6 will be entered or designed into this module. FIG. 7 illustrates examples 700 of mapping rules for converting the edited document 602 into the structured document 220 of FIG. 2c. In particular, the "file" unit starts at 702 and ends at 7 1 8; the "recipe" file starts at 704 and ends at 7 1 4; 706 constitutes the "ingredient" unit; 708 constitutes the "program" unit, 710 constitutes the "performance," unit and 712 constitutes the "derived from" unit. In 704, 706, 708, 710, and 712, the structural font information is used to locate these data units, and the located data units are assigned as attributes of each document unit or parsed characters data. Available on page 24. This paper size applies Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 (210 X 297 mm) " '(Please read the precautions on the back before filling this page) Order --------- line丨 1 --- 525088 Printed A7 by the Consumer Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 5. Description of the invention () Borrow, but not limited to, Java, JavaScHpt, Extensible Transformation Operation Style Language (XSLT), C / C + + Programming languages, or any built-in or programmable hardware device to implement these mapping rules. The converted file can be stored as an archive file or exported to the document database 418. In addition to converting directly into the desired document, the conversion module can also output the edited document as an intermediary structured file, which will contain structured font information. The mediation structured file can be reloaded for further editing or batch conversion operations. An example of the intermediate structured file 808 of the edited document 600 can be shown in FIG. 8, where 802 contains a “font” unit with a specific font attribute, and 804 contains a parsed with a “font-ID” attribute A data unit to which the font information is associated. Since the parsed data units with the same font attributes have already been grouped by the same “font-ID” in the intermediary structured file, the mapping operation mapping rules can be designed based on the grouped font information. FIG. 9 illustrates an example mapping rule for converting the intermediary file 800 into the structured file 220. In particular, 902 starts and 91 8 ends the "file" unit, 904 starts and 914 ends the "recipe" file, 906 constitutes the "ingredient" unit, 908 constitutes the "program" unit, and 910 constitutes the "representation" unit and 912 constitutes this "derived" unit. In 904, 906, 908, 910, and 912, the grouped font information is used to locate these data units, and the located data units are assigned as the attributes of the document units or the parsed words Metadata. Figure 10 shows the use of malleability to change the work style language. Page 25 This paper's paper outline + CNS A4 specification (210 X 297 public love) --------------- --Order --------- 槔 t (Please read the precautions on the back before filling out this page) 525088 A7 V. Description of the invention () (XSLT), make these as given in Figure 9 Examples of mapping rules. The foregoing invention is preferably implemented in software, hardware, or a combination thereof. At least the present invention can be implemented as a computer-readable code on a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium is any data storage device that can store data and then be read by a computing device. Examples of such computer-readable media include read-only memory, random access memory, hard drives, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic tapes, optical data storage devices, and carriers. The computer-readable medium can also be distributed on a network-coupled computer system, and the computer-readable code is stored and executed in a distributed manner. The invention has been described with sufficient specificity to the sufficient degree. However, for those who are familiar with this technology, they should be able to understand that this specific embodiment reveals only the nature of an example, and can implement various changes in the arrangement and combination of various parts without departing from the original declaration. The spirit and scope of the invention. Although the specific embodiments discussed herein may contain certain restrictions on the expression of information units, the present invention is indeed applicable to those other than the specific embodiments in terms of format and arrangement. Those who are familiar with this skill should know this easily. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should be defined in accordance with the scope of patent application described later, rather than the description of the specific embodiments disclosed previously. (Please read the precautions on the back before filling this page) Order --------- line; printed by the Consumer Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, page 26. Wood and paper scales are in accordance with Chinese national standards: Grid (21Q χ Tear hair

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525088 A8 B8 C8 ----- —_____ D8___ _ 6. Scope of patent application L. A method for generating structured documents. The method includes at least the following steps: receiving a definition file containing a document type definition (DTD); and Displaying a super file together with the definition file, wherein the super file contains several displayable objects and their individual decorative attributes about each of the displayable objects; and at least one of the definitions in the child's righteousness file Associated with one of the displayable objects. 2. The method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, which further includes the following steps: generating a modified super file 'which includes the displayable objects, each of which is associated with at least one of the definitions in the definition file. 3. The method according to item 2 of the scope of patent application, further comprising the step of converting the modified super file into a markup language file according to a set of mapping rules. Printed by the Consumer Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 4 · The method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the above-mentioned definition file includes a file unit structure, each corresponding to one of the displayable objects in the overload case . 5. The method as described in item 4 of the scope of patent application, in which some of the document units include another level of sub-document units, each of which corresponds to the Chinese paper standard (CNS) A4 on page 27. (210 X 297 mm) 525088 A8 B8 C8 D8 6. Scope of patent application One of the objects that can be displayed in this super file. 6. The method according to item 4 of the scope of patent application, wherein at least a part of the file unit contains a plurality of identifiers respectively, and each identifier is assigned to one of the at least part of the file units. 7 · The method as described in item 6 of the scope of patent application, in which part of the identification system is one or more numbers or letters. 8. The method according to item 6 of the scope of patent application, wherein part of the identification system is selected from a group consisting of a font style, a color name, a size, a style, and an effect. 9. The method as described in item 6 of the scope of patent application, wherein the steps associated with at least one of the definitions in the definition file include at least the following steps: selecting one of the displayable objects; and assigning an identifier to the Select to display objects. Printed by the Consumer Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 1 10. The method described in item 9 of the scope of patent application, wherein each of these identifiers is a number or a letter. 1 1 · The method as described in item 10 of the scope of patent application, wherein the identifiers are one or more (i) font styles, (ii) color names, (iii) size, (iv) styles And (v) effects. Page 28 This paper size applies Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) 525088 A8 B8 C8 D8 Printed by the Consumer Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 6. Scope of patent application 12. Such as the scope of patent application 帛 丨The method described in item 1, wherein the super file is an unstructured file that is created or edited or managed by an editing tool. 13. The method according to item 12 of the scope of patent application, wherein some of the displayable objects are individual character groups. 14. The method according to item 13 of the scope of patent application, wherein some of the decorative attributes include at least the position, font color, font size, font style, style, and effect of each of the character groups. 15 · —A method for generating a structured file, the method includes at least the following steps: ° Start an environment containing a first screen and a second screen, the first screen is displayed and the second screen is displayed A definition file containing a document type definition (DTD), wherein the super file contains several displayable pieces and their individual decorative attributes for each of these displayable objects, wherein the file type definitions each include an identifier ; Several group objects are clustered, each group object has its own, several displayable objects; and the blade associates each group object with the document type bear set difference, „1- heart 疋 我 其 — Identifier. 16. The method described in item 15 of the scope of the patent application, basin, T also includes the production of page 29. The paper size is applicable to China National Standard (CNS) A4 (210 X 297 mm) (please read the back first) For the matters needing attention, fill in this page again} m.; Line _ 525088 Printed by the Employees' Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Identifier. 1 7 · The method described in item 16 of the scope of patent application further includes the following steps: According to the mapping rule, the modified superslot case is converted into a markup language file. 18 · The method as described in item 17 of the scope of patent application, wherein the markup language file is suitable for presentation on a selected medium. 19. The method as described in claim 18, wherein the selected medium is a web page performance on the Internet. 20 · The method as described in item 18 of the scope of patent application, wherein the markup language file is based on a markup language selected by a group including "Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)", Text Markup Language (cHTML) "" Extensible Markup Language (XML) "," Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) "or" Wireless Markup Language (WML), ". 2 1 · The method as described in item 15 of the scope of patent application, wherein some of the decorative attributes include at least the position of each character in the character group, font color, font size, font style, style, and effect. Page 30 (Please read the precautions on the back before filling in this page) Click ·. -Line _ This paper size is applicable to China National Standard (CNS) A4 (210 X 297 mm) 525088 Employees of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Cooperatives print A8 B8 C8 D8, patent application scope 22 · As described in item 21 of the patent application scope, some of the displayable objects are individual character groups. 2 3 · The method described in item 22 of the scope of the patent application, wherein some of the identifiers are one or more numbers and letters. 24. The method as described in item 23 of the scope of patent application, wherein the identifiers are one or more (i) font styles, (ii) color names, (iii) size, (iv) styles, and ( v) effect. 25. A machine-readable medium that implements instructions for execution by a processor. When the processor executes these instructions, it will induce the processor to generate a structured file. The machine-readable medium contains at least : A first code for receiving a definition file containing a document type definition (DTD); a second code for displaying a super file and together with the definition file, the super file contains several displayable objects , And its individual decorative attributes for each of the displayable objects; and a third code for associating at least one definition in the definition file with one of the displayable objects. 26. The machine-readable media as described in item 25 of the scope of patent application, including: Page 31 This paper size applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 mm) 525088 Intellectual Property Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs Printed by employee consumer cooperative A8 B8 C8 D8 VI. Patent application scope A fourth code 'used to generate a modified super file, the super file contains these displayable objects, and each is associated with the definition file At least one definition. 27. The machine-readable medium as described in item 25 of the scope of patent application, which further includes a fifth code for converting the modified super file into a markup language file according to the mapping rules. 2 8 · The machine-readable medium as described in item 25 of the scope of patent application, wherein the above-mentioned sufficient file includes a file unit structure, each corresponding to one of the displayable objects in the eaves case. 2 9 · The machine-readable medium as described in item 28 of the scope of patent application, some of the file units include another level of sub-file units, and each sub-file unit corresponds to one of the displayable objects in the super file By. 30. The machine-readable medium according to item 28 of the scope of the patent application, wherein at least part of the file unit contains a plurality of identifiers, respectively, and each of the identifier units is assigned to at least one of the file units. 3 1 · The machine-readable medium as described in item 30 of the scope of patent application, some of which are identified by one or more numbers or letters. 32. The machine-readable medium as described in item 30 of the scope of patent application, wherein the paper size on page 32 applies to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 public Θ ^---- (please first 'B8 Read the notes on the back and fill in this page again) Click · Line-A8 B8 C8 D8 525088 6. The identification sub-section of the patent application range consists of a group containing / font style, a color name, a size, a style and an effect Selected from the group. 3 3. The machine-readable medium as described in item 30 of the scope of patent application, wherein the third code includes at least: a sixth code for selecting one of the β display objects, and A seventh code for assigning its / identifier to the selected displayable object. 3 4 · The machine-readable medium as described in item 33 of the patent application scope, wherein each of these identifiers is a digital or Letters. 3 5 · The machine-readable media as described in item 34 of the scope of patent application, where the identification sub-system (i) font style, (ii) color name, (ϋ〇size, (iv) style and (V) One or more of the effects. 36. If applying for a patent The machine-readable medium as described in Scope Item 25, wherein the super file belongs to, or originates from, an unstructured file created, edited, or managed by a editing tool. 37. If the scope of patent application is 36 The machine-readable medium as described in item 1, some of the displayable objects are individual character groups. 3 8. The machine-readable medium as described in item 37 of the scope of patent application, where the 33rd paper size Applicable to China National Standard (CNS) A4 specifications (21 × 297 mm) (Please read the precautions on the back before filling out this page) Click · Printed by the Intellectual Property Bureau Employee Consumer Cooperative of the Ministry of Economy 525088 A8 B8 C8 D8 Ministry of Economy Wisdom Printed clothes for employees' cooperatives of the Property Bureau 6. The decorative attributes of the patent application scope at least include the position, font color, font size, font style, style and effect of each of the character groups. 39_ 一个 机Readable media to implement the instructions-instructions executed by the processor 'When the processor executes, these instructions will induce the processor to generate structured files, the machine can read the media at least -Section-code, used to activate a border that contains the first-picture and the second written document, the first-picture display-exceeded the case and the second picture is written in a definition document with a document type definition (DTD) Case, in which the exceeded case contains several displayable objects and their individual equipment: attributes, and the file type defines each include-identifier;-a second code for clustering out A plurality of group objects, each group object containing a plurality of displayable objects; and a third code for associating each group object with the document type defining one of the identifiers. 40. The machine-readable medium as described in item 39 of the scope of the patent application, which further includes a fourth code for generating a modified superstandard case. The superfile contains information of each group object, and the It is an identifier that is associated with each file type definition. 4 1 · The machine-readable medium as described in item 40 of the scope of patent application, which further includes a fifth code for converting the modified super file into a markup language file according to the mapping rules. Page 34 This paper size applies to China National Standard (CNS) A4 (210 X 297 mm) (Please read the precautions on the back before filling this page) Click · Order: • Line · 525088 A8 B8 C8 D8 VI. Application Patent scope 42. The machine-readable medium as described in item 39 of the patent scope of Shenyin, some of the decorative attributes include at least the position of each character in the character group, font color, font size, font Styles, styles, and effects, and some of the displayable objects are individual character groups. (Please read the precautions on the back before filling out this page) 线 -line _ Printed by the Employees' Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Page 35 This paper size applies to China National Standard (CNS) A4 (210 X 297 mm)