DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090276699A1
• Filed: 04/29/2009
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: HATAKEYAMA, Yuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,539,332 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]

Abstract

Document data to be edited includes reference information to external document data corresponding to a component document constituting the document data. When the component document is selected and when an instruction is given for the reflection thereof in the external document, a chapter to be updated is identified first, and reference information corresponding to that chapter is identified. Then, the external document identified by the reference information is overwritten and updated with the selected component document.

Claims

1. A document processing apparatus for processing document data, the document data including reference information on external document data corresponding to a component document constituting the document data, said document processing apparatus comprising:

an editor adapted to edit document data to be edited; and

an updater adapted to update external document data corresponding to a selected component document with the selected component document based on the reference information.

2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said editor has both or either one of a function for inserting external document data together with its reference information into the document data to be edited and a function for replacing the selected component document with the external document and inserting the reference information on the external document.

3. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said updater overwrites and updates the external document data corresponding to the selected component document with the selected component document.

4. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the document data to be edited has a hierarchical structure that includes pages as a lowest layer, and

said editor has a function for editing the pages, such as changing the order, adding or deleting, in the document data to be edited on a page-by-page basis.

5. The document processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the document data to be edited further has nodes constituting an intermediate layer between the whole document and the pages, and

said editor has a function for editing the nodes, such as changing the order, adding or deleting, in the document data to be edited on a node-by-node basis.

6. The document processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, when an insertion position is in a node of the intermediate layer when the external document is inserted into the document data to be edited, said editor divides the node and inserts the external document between divided nodes as a new node of the intermediate layer.

7. The document processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, when page order change that spans nodes of the intermediate layer is performed, said editor divides each of the nodes of the intermediate layer to which pages whose order is to be changed belong, and writes reference information on the external document and node order information on the intermediate layer related to the division in each divided node of the intermediate layer.

8. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second updater adapted to update a component document of the document data, the component document being configured through insertion of external document data, with the external document.

9. A storage medium storing a document processing program for processing document data, the document data including reference information on external document data corresponding to a component document constituting the document data, the document processing program causing a computer to function as:

an editor adapted to edit document data to be edited; and

an updater adapted to update external document data corresponding to a selected component document with the selected component document based on the reference information.

10. A document processing method for an application that processes document data executed by a document processing apparatus, the document data including reference information on external document data corresponding to a component document constituting the document data, said method comprising the steps of:

editing document data to be edited; and

updating external document data corresponding to a selected component document with the selected component document based on the reference information.