Document processing method and system, and computer-readable recording medium having document processing program recorded therein

• US 7,113,952 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2003
• Issued: 09/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Takita, Yukie, Hoshi, Yukio, Takahashi, Toru, Aoyama, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Shahid
• Assistant Examiner(s): FLEURANTIN, JEAN B
• Application Number:
  US10/649,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20040049626A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,125 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 10, 707100-1041, 707200-206, 715/511, 715/513, 715/526, 715/530, 715/760, 715/763, 717/122, 717/170, 711/100
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system for processing a document such as a structured document in which information such as a term, name and belonging department is used as shared information and word consistency or modification can be automatically and easily reflected on all documents. In the document processing method, a shared information editing program edits shared information shared information frequently described in a plurality of documents, a shared information storage program stores the edited shared information in a secondary memory, a shared information list-up program lists up the shared information for each information type, a structured document editing program edits a structured document to describe a link to the shared information selected from the edited shared information listed up, a structured document storage program stores the structured document in the secondary memory, and a structured document output program reads out the shared information and structured document from the secondary memory and embeds the contents of the shared information in the structured document for its display or printout.

Claims

1. A structured document display method for displaying a structured document for managing a structure of a plurality of documents, comprising the steps of:

editing shared information included in said plurality of documents;

storing said edited shared information and a date and an hour of generation of said shared information to correlate with each other;

editing a structured document with a link describing the link relating to said shared information;

storing said edited link-described document and a date and an hour of generation thereof to correlated with each other;

when displaying said link-described structured document as a web page, displaying a web page in which shared information corresponding to the link-described structured document generation date and hour among said shared information arid shared information corresponding to a date and an hour of generation not corresponding to the link-described structured document generation date and hour are mixed;

storing a version corresponding to said link-described structure document generation date and hour and a version corresponding to said shared information generation date and hour;

comparing said stored link-described structured document version with the stored shared information version; and

displaying a web page in which a portion displaying shared information having a version corresponding to said link-described structured document version and a portion displaying shared information of the latest version among said shared information are embedded as a result of the comparison.

2. A structured document display method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

storing the shared information in which said latest version is selected and the shared information in which said link-described structure document version is selected, distinguishably from each other.

3. A structured document display apparatus for displaying a structured document for managing a structure of a plurality of documents, comprising:

means for editing shared information included in said plurality of documents;

means for storing said edited shared information and a date and an hour of generation of said shared information to correlate with each other;

means for editing a structured document with a link describing the link relating to said shared information;

means for storing said edited link-described document and a date and an hour of generation thereof to correlated with each other;

means, when displaying said link-described structured document as a web page, for displaying a web page in which shared information corresponding to the link-described structured document generation date and hour among said shared information and shared information corresponding to a date and an hour of generation not corresponding to the link-described structured document generation date and hour are mixed;

means for storinq a version corresponding to said link-described structure document generation date and hour and a version corresponding to said shared information generation date and hour;

means for comparing said stored link-described structured document version with the stored shared information version; and

means for displaying a web page in which a portion displaying shared information having a version corresponding to said link-described structured document version and a portion displaying shared information of the latest version among said shared information are embedded as a result of the comparison.

4. A structured document display apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

means for storing the shared information in which said latest version is selected and the shared information in which said link-described structure document version is selected, distinguishably from each other.

5. A computer-implemented program recordable medium for performing a structured document display method comprising the steps of:

editing shared information included in said plurality of documents;

storing said edited shared information and a date and an hour of generation of said shared information to correlate with each other;

editing a structured document with a link describing the link relating to said shared information;

storing said edited link-described document and a date and an hour of generation thereof to correlated with each other;

when displaying said link-described structured document as a web page, displaying a web page in which shared information corresponding to the link-described structured document generation date and hour among said shared information and shared information corresponding to a date and an hour of generation not corresponding to the link-described structured document generation date and hour are mixed;

storing a version corresponding to said link-described structure document generation date and hour and a version corresponding to said shared information generation date and hour;

comparing said stored link-described structured document version with the stored shared information version; and

displaying a web page in which a portion displaying shared information having a version corresponding to said link-described structured document version and a portion displaying shared information of the latest version among said shared information are embedded as a result of the comparison.

6. A computer-implemented program for performing a structured document display method according to claim 5, further comprising the step of:

storing the shared information in which said latest version is selected and the shared information in which said link-described structure document version is selected, distinguishably from each other.