Method and apparatus for implementing a tag-based display language utilizing a procedural instruction language

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for displaying markup language documents on a first computer system. A client computer (260) has a general purpose computer program execution environment and receives programs for execution in the environment so as to generate a display on an output device and receive input from an input device. A translation computer system (210), on retrieving a markup language document from a storage device (280) in response to a request from the client computer, systematically parses the document to generate a corresponding computer program embodying the content and semantics of the document and then transmits the generated computer program to the client computer to enable display of the markup language document.