Patent ID: 7172122

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 steam, the XML system comprising: a computer system having a memory subsystem; a communication interface operatively coupled to a network; an XML processor having access to the memory subsystem, the XML processor configured to receive the XML input data stream, and further configured to transform data in the XML input data stream into transformed XML data based upon a stylesheet identified in the XML data stream; 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 based in part upon the formatted XML data, generate a printable representation of the bar code label, tag, ticket, card, other media, and/or generate encoding information for an RFID device.