Patent ID: 7539936
Filing Date: 2009-05-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, on a computer system, for processing documents having a document type definition (DTD), comprising: receiving at least one extension to a preexisting document type definition of an application during runtime comprising a plug-in with a DTD fragment having elements and attributes; responsive to receiving the at least one extension to the preexisting document type definition of the application during runtime, automatically dynamically creating, during runtime of the computer system, a new document type definition including the at least one extension from the preexisting document type definition of the application by combining static header XML information of the preexisting document type definition, updated parameter entities of the preexisting document type definition produced from added element names of the elements and attributes of the plug-in, and element information for the added element names produced from the plug-in DTD fragment, wherein the new document type definition continues to support validation of previous documents for the application; and parsing a next document received by the application according to the dynamically created document type definition.