Abstract: Data storage is improved by combining content indexing and data reduction in text-containing files by using common word elimination. Raw data is processed by finding words in selected files, creating an index of found words, and replacing the words in the raw data with pointers to the corresponding words in the index. Each word appears only once in the index. Consequently, the index is relatively small and the procedure is completely reversible. In particular, the index is small relative to other methods because the data is transformed in place, and the transformed data and index are used together to capture the total information about the data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing an HTML applications development environment is disclosed. The applications development environment is used to develop large HTML based applications. The invention includes a preprocessor and associated preprocessor commands which are inserted into a source HTML file. The preprocessor reads the source file, evaluates the preprocessor commands, and makes the appropriate substitutions into an output HTML file.