Method and apparatus for declarative error handling and presentation
View Patent ↗The present invention includes a method and device for generic searching across document types. A further aspect of the present invention is indexing and searching XML documents using an HTML interface generated by a declarative transformation.
1. A method for error processing and reporting during validation of a business document in a client-server environment, the method including:
accessing a first self-describing, structured document having a document type;
validating the first document against a schema corresponding to the document type;
generating a second self-describing, structured document including, for any detected errors,
at least one error identifier; and
a path specification identifying a node within the first self-describing structured document corresponding to the detected error;
applying a declarative transformation to the first and second documents, producing a user interface character string, including a plurality of
path specification for nodes in the first document; and
values for nodes in the first document; and
at least one error message corresponding to the at least one error identifier; and
transmitting the user interface character string.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the schema is compliant with any version of a SOX standard.
3. The method of claim 2 , further including validating the first document against a set of business processing rules and generating a third self-describing, structured document, wherein the declarative transformation is further applied to the third document.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the declarative transformation is compliant with an XSLT standard.
5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the declarative transformation is compliant with an XSLT standard.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an HTML standard.
7. The method of claim 3 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an HTML standard.
8. The method of claim 5 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an HTML standard.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an XML standard.
10. The method of claim 3 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an XML standard.
11. The method of claim 5 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an XML standard.
12. A method for error processing and reporting during validation of a business document in a client-server environment, the method including:
accessing a first self-describing, structured document having a document type;
validating the first document against a set of business processing rules applicable to the document type and an intended recipient of the first document;
generating a second self-describing, structured document including, for any detected errors,
at least one error identifier; and
a path specification identifying a node within the first self-describing structured document corresponding to the detected error;
applying a declarative transformation to the first and second documents, producing a user interface character string, including a plurality of
path specification for nodes in the first document; and
values for nodes in the first document; and
at least one error message corresponding to the at least one error identifier; and
transmitting the user interface character string.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the business processing rules are Schematron-compliant.
14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the declarative transformation is compliant with an XSLT standard.
15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the declarative transformation is compliant with an XSLT standard.
16. The method of claim 12 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an HTML standard.
17. The method of claim 13 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an HTML standard.
18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an HTML standard.
19. The method of claim 12 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an XML standard.
20. The method of claim 13 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an XML standard.
21. The method of claim 15 , wherein the user interface character string is compliant with an XML standard.