| 摘要 |
A fuel dispenser (110) includes data type aware SGML processing capabilities (206) -allowing it to efficiently process received data having a variety of data types. Such received data typically includes fuel dispenser configuration information. Further benefits related to data type aware SGML processing within the fuel dispenser include the ability to transfer information in a data type aware SGML format from the fuel dispenser, such as diagnostics data, to a remote system. Data type aware SGML data definitions facilitate conversion of the data type aware SGML-formatted diagnostics data into a machine format usable by the remote system. Preferably, the fuel dispenser includes an HTTP server for communicating with remote client's systems that employ data type aware SGML-capable, web browsers. Data type aware SGML-based style sheets may be transferred from the fuel dispenser to the remote system for assisting with the visual display of received fuel dispenser data in HTML format. Optionally, the fuel dispenser may include a Java applet designed to impart data type aware SGML-based transfer and processing capabilities to remote client web browsers lacking native data type aware SGML support. As an alternative, the fuel dispenser may itself apply resident data type aware style sheet information to stored fuel dispenser data after converting it to data type aware SGML format to produce formatted HTML-based web pages, and then transfer the web pages to the remote system for display. <IMAGE> <IMAGE> |
