Patent ID: 7165216
Filing Date: 2007-01-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for converting a legacy or proprietary document into extensible mark-up language format, comprising: inputting a document having a proprietary format; converting the proprietary format document to a document having a standard representation format; preparing a structured representation of the standard representation format document with an exemplary source document schema; determining an exemplary target document schema; preparing a structured representation conforming with the exemplary target document schema; annotating a subset of the standard representation format document to define exemplary target structured representations that satisfy the exemplary target document schema; decomposing a two-dimensional representation of the source document schema using multiple one-dimensional methods; developing translation rules to instruct a parser to visit the two-dimensional representation of the source document schema to group and/or nest labeled elements in an exemplary output document schema; preparing a source document schema structured representation of the standard representation format source document; applying the translation rules to visit the two-dimensional representation of the source document schema and group and/or nest labeled elements in an output document in a target structured representation format; and converting the target structured representation format document to an output target representation document format.