Patent ID: 7290206
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A apparatus for providing document conversion, comprising: a document type definition stored on a computer readable medium, said document type definition defining a document conversion element containing a convertor element for specifying a plurality of document conversion filters, said document conversion element further containing a global element for specifying at least one global property applicable to each of said plurality of document conversion filters, wherein said convertor element defines at least one input tag for specifying at least one corresponding input document type, at least one output tag for specifying at least one corresponding output document type, at least one filter tag for specifying at least one corresponding software object to be used for converting documents from said at least one input document type to said at least one output document type; and further comprising a global property generated based on said document type definition, said global property comprising an indication of whether event logging is to be performed across a plurality of document conversion filters generated based on said document type definition.