Patent ID: 6778983
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising:at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a translation mechanism residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the translation mechanism converting at least one Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file to a corresponding database table and building a cross-reference between each HTML file and the corresponding database table, wherein the HTML file comprises at least one HTML element, and wherein the corresponding database table comprises a record corresponding to each HTML element; a processing mechanism residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the processing mechanism processing a structured quay language (SQL) query that specifies at least one HTML file and at least one HTML element in the HTML file, wherein the processing mechanism substitutes in the SQL query a name for a corresponding database table for the HTML file and a name for a corresponding record for each HTML element in the SQL query, wherein the processing mechanism uses the cross-reference to access data in a database table that corresponds to the specified HTML file in processing the SQL query.