SOFTWARE ISOLATION OF PRESENTATION AND MARK-UP LANGUAGE USING INTERMEDIATE FUNCTION LANGUAGE AND LIBRARY

摘要

In accordance with the present invention, a computing environment having a connection to a network includes a sub-process for manipulating data in connection with a database (182) in response to a user request (176) identifying one of a plurality of markup languages, a sub-process for organizing at least a portion of the manipulated data using a functional markup language, the functional markup language providing a common dialect for expressing a predefined group of generic user interface activities, and a sub-process for converting the data organized in the functional markup language into a presentation format of the markup language indicated in the user request (176).