| 摘要 |
<p>The suggested system (102) responds to triggering strings of characters within incoming data by calling upon a meta-command interpreter (108) to execute meta-commands such as '#if...#endif,''#for...#next,' and '#mid...' embedded within templates containing data and print commands which describe families of documents or reports. The incoming pages can be stripped of their (printer) control codes and can be then used as rectangular arrays of characters which control the customization and reduction of the templates into one or more customized documents or reports containing data extracted from the incoming pages inserted at points marked by the '#mid' meta-command and similar meta-commands. A first template, with a '#startform' command, can cause the meta-command interpreter to process subsequent incoming pages against a designated template without the need for further triggering. Customized documents or reports may be provided by an appropriate device (102) containing data selected from data flowing into said input port and combined with print commands selectively taken from said template, the document or report customization process and the data selection process controlled by the meta-language commands in said template together with at least some of said incoming data. The system provides global search and replace functions for all incoming pages as well as optional double-byte to single-byte conversion.</p> |
