Architecture for arbitrary extensible markup language processing engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8984397-B2
Application number	US-30485705-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2005
Priority date	Dec 15, 2005
Publication date	Mar 17, 2015
Grant date	Mar 17, 2015

Abstract

An extensible markup language document processing engine performs arbitrary processing on extensible markup language documents. The processing sequence of the extensible markup language document processing engine is not fixed, but rather can depend upon the information submitted with the job and upon determinations and analysis during the actual job processing. The extensible markup language document processing engine can also segment the document processing so that different fragments of the document are handled differently, thereby providing parallel processing capabilities. Moreover, the extensible markup language document processing engine can segment the document processing so that different fragments of the document are handled differently so that not all processing is blocked when a fragment requires a slow action, such as retrieval of information from the web.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A processing system, comprising:
an extensible markup language processor; and
a workflow selection processor;
said workflow selection processor receiving workflow specifications and document fragments to be processed, a workflow specification describing a process to be carried out on a corresponding document fragment;
said workflow selection processor outputting workflow specifications and document fragments to said extensible markup language processor…

Assignees

• Harrington Steven J
• Xerox Corp

Inventors

• Harrington Steven J

Classifications

• G06F40/131 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/2247 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/2229

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F40/143

  Physics · mapped topic