Document retrieving object instructing apparatus

• US 5,727,195 A
• Filed: 04/14/1995
• Issued: 03/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakatsuyama, Hisashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Corrielus, Jean M.
• Application Number:
  US08/422,586
• Time in Patent Office: 1,061 Days
• Field of Search: 395/600, 395/601, 395/774, 364/419.19
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/955 Object-oriented
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

In a document database managing system for managing a structured document constructed of document constructive elements, a document retrieving object instructing apparatus is employed as a query editor. The document retrieving object instructing apparatus includes instructing means for instructing a condition related to the document constructive elements in the structured document; connection condition instructing means for instructing one of a parent-child relationship and also an ancestor-descendant relationship between the document constructive elements; and retrieving means for producing a retrieve condition based upon the instructions issued from the instructing means and the connection condition instructing means and for retrieving document data stored in a database in accordance with the retrieve condition.

Claims

1. A document retrieving object instructing apparatus that enables users to instruct a retrieval condition or conditions regarding an object to be retrieved, used in a document database managing system for managing a database of structured documents each constructed of document constructive elements, comprising:

instructing means for instructing a search condition using the document constructive elements in searching said structured documents;

connection condition instructing means for instructing a search condition using one of a parent-child relationship and an ancestor-descendant relationship that is not a parent-child relationship between said document constructive elements in searching said structured documents; and

retrieving means for producing said retrieval condition based upon the instructed search conditions issued from said instructing means and said connection condition instructing means and for retrieving document data stored in the database in accordance with said retrieval condition.

2. The document retrieving object instructing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

derived object instructing means for instructing that a specific portion of the document constructive elements in the retrieved document data be derived as an object distinguished within the retrieved document data.