Appeal No. 2006-0223
Application No. 09/754,969
a structure for document elements, each corresponding to one of the displayable objects in the
metafile. Some of the document elements include a number of identifiers, each of the identifiers
being assigned to one of the document elements. In one implementation, the identifier are
numerals and/or alphabets. In another implementation, the identifiers are one or more of a font
name, a color name, a size, a font type, a color, a style, various effects or other symbols. The
method associates at least one of the identifiers with one of the displayable objects. Appellant’s
specification at page 7, lines 11-26.
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for producing a structured document, the method comprising:
receiving a definition file including document type definitions (DTD) to generate a tree
structure of hierarchical relationships of document elements;
displaying an output presentation along with the DTD and the tree structure
simultaneously, the output presentation including a number of displayable objects and
respective decoration attributes about each of the displayable objects, the DTD showing
structures of the document elements and the tree structure showing the hierarchical
relationships of the document elements based on a root element selected among the
document elements;
associating at least one of the document elements in the tree structure with one of the
displayable objects; and
creating the structured document from the output presentation in accordance with the at
least one of the document elements being associated with the one of the displayable
objects.
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