Patent ID: 6908034

Claim:
An XML system configured to facilitate printing of bar code labels, tags, tickets, cards, or other media, and/or encoding of RFID devices embedded in media, based upon an extensible markup language (XML) input data stream, the XML system comprising: a computer system having a memory subsystem; a communication interface operatively coupled to a network; an XML processor configured to receive and process the XML put data stream; an extensible stylesheet language transformation (XSLT) processor configured to either obtain a stylesheet identified in the XML data stream or obtain the stylesheet from a stylesheet repository, the XSLT processor transforming data in the XML input data stream into transformed XML data based upon the stylesheet obtained; an extensible stylesheet language formatting object (XSLFO) processor configured to format the transformed XML data into formatted XML data based upon XSLFO instructions contained in the stylesheet; and a rendering subsystem configured to receive the formatted XML data and generate a printable representation of the bar code label, tag, ticket, card, other media, and/or generate encoding information for an RFID device.