US Patent 7873899 Mapping schemes for creating and storing electronic documents

A method is provided for generating mapping schemes for creating target electronic documents with data from a source, and for storing data from source electronic documents into a target. Commands from a user are received creating a mapping between the attributes of the source and the attributes of the target. Multiple attributes of the source may be mapped to a single attribute of the target, and multiple attributes of the target can be mapped to a single attribute of the source. Commands, specifying actions to be performed when data from the source is converted to the target, may also be received from a user. A mapping scheme is then generated using the mapping between the source and target attributes, and the actions defined on the source and the target.