Patent ID: 8145992
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of validating a document conversion chain, comprising: inserting a plurality of waypoints into a first document conversion chain that converts a markup-language document collection from a first format to a second format, wherein the first document conversion chain contains at least one conversion component; executing the first conversion chain on the document collection to create a first modified document collection; modifying the at least one conversion component in the first conversion chain to generate a second conversion chain, wherein the plurality of waypoints are maintained; executing the second conversion chain on the document collection to create a second modified document collection; generating validation results for each document in the first and second modified document collections at each waypoint in the first conversion chain and the second conversion chain; and presenting the validation results to a user; comparing the validation results of each document in the first modified document collection to the validation results of each document in the second modified document collection.