Abstract: This document describes tools capable of validating and enabling validation of a package's structure. To do so, constraint grammar is provided that is capable of enabling a person to build a set of machine-readable constraints for a package's structure. Based on this set of constraints, a package validator module may accurately and automatically validate that a package's structure meets these constraints.

Abstract: A trace header with an activity identifier is sent between a client and a database server as part of a request message stream. The activity identifier gets logged by client-side connection-related traces, by server-side traces, and by database engine traces. The activity identifier can be used to exactly correlate a thread on the client to threads on the server. Additionally, specific threads within a database engine may be correlated using the activity identifier to track the threads that processed a particular request. This enhances troubleshooting of the database system, particularly when there are many concurrent users and threads.

Abstract: A trace identifier is sent between a database client and a database server using a pre-login data package along with pre-login connection open requests through the TDS protocol. The trace identifier gets logged by client-side connection-related traces, by server-side traces, and by database engine traces. The trace identifier can be used to exactly correlate a physical connection on the client to a physical connection on the server. This enhances troubleshooting of the database system, particularly when there are many concurrent users and threads.

Abstract: Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that enable software and hardware systems to generate, exchange, and display documents reliably and consistently. The framework and format have been designed in a flexible and extensible fashion. In addition to this general framework and format, a particular format, known as the reach package format, is defined using the general framework. The reach package format is a format for storing paginated documents. The contents of a reach package can be displayed or printed with full fidelity among devices and applications in a wide range of environments and across a wide range of scenarios.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing access to individual resources stored within a package. The system enables a client to access the resources without having to access the entire package. The system allows a client to reference the different resources within the package through use of a URI scheme. The URI scheme of the present invention is composed through a method of combining the URI for the package and the URI for the resource. The URI scheme of the present invention is able to work with any scheme, thereby enabling the URI scheme to be universal and not protocol-specific.

Abstract: Methods for filtering a file written in Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and incrementally returning the logical content contained therein to the environment, e.g., a search engine, are provided. Additionally provided are methods for extracting logical content contained in a XAML file to facilitate searching and/or indexing thereof. The methods provided permit the filtering of files containing only flow-format elements, files containing only elements representing fixed-format pages, and/or files containing both flow-format and elements representing fixed-format pages.

Abstract: This document describes tools capable of validating and enabling validation of a package's structure. To do so, constraint grammar is provided that is capable of enabling a person to build a set of machine-readable constraints for a package's structure. Based on this set of constraints, a package validator module may accurately and automatically validate that a package's structure meets these constraints.

Abstract: Methods and systems described herein provide a name-based access mechanism that can enable name-based requests to be generated and sent to a server to retrieve correspondingly named parts of a document. In at least some embodiments, a resource designator associated with the document is wrapped or encapsulated using a special scheme which appends a name associated with the desired document part to the encapsulated resource designator Once a server receives the encapsulated resource designator, the server can locate the named document part and stream or otherwise provide the document part to the requesting client device.

Abstract: Described is a mechanism for providing a single file that includes multiple representations of the same document content. Each of the representations may be optimized to provide a superior presentation for a particular device or application. The mechanism of the invention is preferably based on a compound file format that allows multiple renditions of the same content to be stored in a single document. Meta information is included within the single document that describes each of the multiple renditions together with any supporting files that may be used with those renditions. The inventors have determined that the Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) compound file format is especially well suited to implementations of the invention.

Abstract: Described is a mechanism for providing a single file that includes multiple representations of the same document content. Each of the representations may be optimized to provide a superior presentation for a particular device or application. The mechanism of the invention is preferably based on a compound file format that allows multiple renditions of the same content to be stored in a single document. Meta information is included within the single document that describes each of the multiple renditions together with any supporting files that may be used with those renditions. The inventors have determined that the Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) compound file format is especially well suited to implementations of the invention.