Abstract: A system and method for automatically performing validation and/or formatting procedures for a graphical user interface (GUI) described in a markup language file. The GUI markup language description may comprise descriptions of various types of GUI elements for which text is to be validated/formatted, such as form fields, tables, hypertext links, etc. The markup language file may include various custom markup language attributes in order to automatically validate/format text for a GUI element. Validation/formatting procedures for GUI elements may thus be based on custom markup language attributes and are managed by a manager that is automatically instantiated when the application parses the markup language file. This manager interfaces to receive programmatic events that trigger various types of formatting/validating operations to be performed on the GUI elements.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically performing validation and/or formatting procedures for a graphical user interface (GUI) described in a markup language file are disclosed. The graphical user interface markup language description may comprise descriptions of various types of graphical user interface elements for which text is to be validated/formatted, such as form fields, tables, hypertext links, etc. An author of a markup language file may include various custom markup language attributes in order to automatically validate/format text for a GUI element, for example by adding a custom HSFORMAT=“usssn” attribute to a GUI element descripiton to indicate that the element should be automatically validated/formatted according to a U.S. social security number pattern.

Abstract: A system and method for enabling data management operations to automatically be applied to data associated with a markup language GUI element is disclosed. An author of a markup language file may include various custom markup language attributes in order to automatically bind a GUI element to a data element and automatically perform a data management operation on the GUI element text, e.g. a formatting/validation operation.