| 摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus for providing access to dynamic data (01) over a network through a display document (DD). The invention separates data access logic from the display document (DD) and converts the formatted display document into a style sheet (25) (which will produce the same formatting when applied to different document content) and a dynamic content definition (28) (which identifies which parts of the original document are dynamic). A virtual server (54) of the invention automates the retrieval of the dynamic content using the style (25) and content definition sheets (28). In the embodiment shown, an HTML document is converted into an XSL style sheet document (25) containing the static formatting and an XML DTD document defining the dynamic content. With the invention, the user identifies which parts of the formatted document should be considered as static. The user also specifies how the style sheet (25) should be defined to repeat related formatting context when dynamic content is repeated.</p> |
