SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING IMAGE USING XSLT EXTENSION AND RELATED METHOD

1 . A system for referencing alternative images for rendering in presentation pages comprising:

a server that includes an extensible stylesheet transformation (XSLT) module having an extension; and

a storage medium that contains an image, wherein the XSLT module is operative for calling the extension to determine where an image exists in the storage medium and rendering the image into a presentation page.

2 . A system according to claim 1 , and further comprising a template for calling the extension to determine where the image exists.

3 . A system according to claim 1 , wherein said image is contained in a file directory, and said XSLT module is operative for caching the image.

4 . A system according to claim 1 , wherein the image tag comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) image tag.

5 . A system according to claim 1 , wherein the extension comprises a Java extension.

6 . A system according to claim 1 , wherein said XSLT module is operative for referencing similar images for different languages.

7 . A system according to claim 1 , wherein said XSLT module is operative for rendering multiple related pages for a similar stylesheet.

8 . A system according to claim 1 , wherein said server comprises an electronic mail (email) server.

9 . A system according to claim 1 , wherein said XSLT module is operative for rendering HTML web pages.

10 . A system according to claim 1 , and further comprising a mobile wireless communications device in which images that have been referenced are uploaded and displayed.

11 . A method for referencing alternative images for rendering in presentation pages, which comprises:

providing an extensible stylesheet transformation (XSLT) module having an extension;

calling the extension to determine where an image exists; and

rendering an image tag into a presentation page.

12 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises calling the extension by a template.

13 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises determining that the image is in cache.

14 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises determining that the image is in a storage medium and caching the image.

15 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises forming the extension as a Java extension.

16 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises forming the image tag as an Uniform Resource Locator (URL) image tag.

17 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises referencing similar images for different language outputs.

18 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises rendering multiple related pages for a similar stylesheet.

19 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises rendering HTML web pages.

20 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises referencing and uploading images at a display of mobile wireless communications device.

21 . A method according to claim 11 , which further comprises extending the XSLT module with extension elements and extension functions.

22 . A computer-readable medium comprising:

an extensible stylesheet transformation (XSLT) module having an extension; and

a storage medium that contains an image, wherein the XSLT module is operative for calling the extension to determine where an image exists in the storage medium and rendering the image into a presentation page.

23 . A computer-readable medium according to claim 22 , and further comprising an extension that is called to determine where the image exists.

24 . A computer-readable medium according to claim 22 , wherein the image tag comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) image tag.

25 . A computer-readable medium according to claim 22 , wherein the extension comprises a Java extension.