Structured document edit apparatus, structured document edit method, and program product

• US 20040044965A1
• Filed: 04/29/2003
• Published: 03/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shirai, Satoshi, Yao, Hiroshi, Kanai, Tatsunori, Toyama, Haruhiko
• Granted Patent: US 7,146,565 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/523
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

An apparatus, method, and program product for editing a structured document is disclosed. A transformation unit transforms a first XSLT document into a second XSLT document, to which a command for editing documents is added based on a structure of the first XSLT document. A generation unit generates a second structured document by transforming a first structured document with the second XSLT document.

Claims

1. A structured document edit apparatus comprising:

a transformation unit configured to transform a first XSLT document into a second XSLT document, to which a command for editing documents is added based on a structure of the first XSLT document; and

a generation unit configured to generate a second structured document by transforming a first structured document with the second XSLT document.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the command includes a first command which is executed by the generation unit, for causing the generation unit to generate first data representing a relationship between a structure of the second structured document and a structure of the first structured document or the first XSLT document.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display apparatus;

a display control unit configured to perform control for displaying the second structured document on a screen of the display apparatus;

an edit unit configured to edit the second structured document in response to an edit operation directed to the second structured document on the screen;

a update unit configured to perform an update process to update at least one of a component of the second structured document and a component of the first XSLT document, based on the first data generated by the generation unit and the edit operation directed to the second structured document on the screen.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the command includes a second command which is executed by the generation unit, for causing the generation unit to generate second data specifying nodes in the first structured document, from which at least one of nodes in the second structured document has been generated.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a display apparatus;

a display control unit configured to control for displaying the second structured document on a screen of the display apparatus;

an edit unit configured to edit the second structured document in response to an edit operation directed to a node of the second structured document on the screen;

an update unit configured to specify a node in the first structured document based on the second data, from which the node of the second structured document has been generated, and perform an update process for the node in the first structured document in response to the edit operation.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the edit operation comprises operating a value of the node of the second structured document.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the command includes a third command which is executed by the generation unit, for causing the generation unit to generate third data specifying nodes in the first XSLT document, from which at least one of nodes in the second structured document has been generated.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 further comprising:

a display apparatus;

a display control unit configured to control for displaying the second structured document on a screen of the display apparatus;

an edit unit configured to edit the second structured document in response to an edit operation directed to a node of the second structured document on the screen;

an update unit configured to specify a node in the first XSLT document based on the third data, from which the node of the second structured document has been generated, and perform an update process for the node in the first XSLT document in response to the edit operation.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the edit operation comprises operating a style attribute of the node of the second structured document.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the style attribute includes one of font size, font type, table width, text color, and background color.

11. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the command includes a fourth command which is executed by the generation unit, for causing the generation unit to generate fourth data designating an edit method to the node of the second structured document.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the edit unit accepts the edit operation to the node of the second structured document on the display apparatus in accordance with the edit method based on the fourth data.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the edit method comprises a method utilizing a textbox or a selection box.

14. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the command includes a fifth command which is executed by the generation unit, for causing the generation unit to generate fifth data specifying a template in the first XSLT document, and wherein the template is used for generating at least one of nodes in the second structured document.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising:

a display apparatus;

a display control unit configured to perform control for displaying the second structured document on a screen of the display apparatus;

a edit unit configured to edit the second structured document in response to a select instruction directed to a node of the second structured document on the screen;

a second display control unit configured to specify the template in the first XSLT document applied to the node in the second structured document, based on the fifth data, and to perform control for displaying information on the template on the screen.

16. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the generation unit writes the generated first data into the second structured document.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the generation unit writes the generated first data into the second structured document as a part of tag, an attribute value, or a comment.

18. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transformation unit adds the command designated corresponding to a condition to be met to a node or a template, when there is the node or the template which meet the condition designated in the first XSLT document.

19. The apparatus according to claim 18, further comprising:

an input unit configured to input information designating the condition and the command corresponding to the condition.

20. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the condition designates a node or template of the first XSLT document, from which one of nodes of the second structured document, which can be edited, has been generated.

21. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the condition designates a node or template of the first XSLT document, wherein the node or template relates to a node or template of the first structured document, from which one of nodes of the second structured document, which can be edited, has been generated.

22. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first structured document and the first XSLT document are provided from a server via a network.

23. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transformation unit and the generation unit are implemented on a server side, and the display control unit, the edit unit, and the update unit are implemented on a terminal side.

24. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second structured document comprises an HTML document, XHTML document, SVG document, MathML document, or XML document.

25. A structured document edit method comprising:

transforming a first XSLT document into a second XSLT document, to which a command for editing documents is added, based on a structure of the first XSLT document; and

generating a second structured document by transforming a first structured document with the second XSLT document.

26. A program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means, the computer readable program code means in said computer program product comprising:

program code means for causing a computer to transform a first XSLT document into a second XSLT document, to which a command for editing documents is added, based on a structure of the first XSLT document; and

program code means for causing a computer to generate a second structured document by transforming a first structured document with the second XSLT document.