JPH0715679B2 - Attribute information processing method in structured document processing system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Outline] In performing processing including document creation for one or more types of documents, a plurality of document processing software including a Japanese document processing mechanism is used and the document processing is performed. Realizes the setting / specification processing of the attribute information of the document format that is necessary when outputting the contents of the structured document that holds the hierarchical structure of the individual document created by using the software as a structure The attribute information processing method in the structured document processing system for enabling the creation of a desired individual document while using the document processing software, and the document format required when outputting the content of the created document file The purpose is to make it easy to set the attribute information of the A structured document file is provided in which the contents of the created document file are unified by a structural document corresponding to the hierarchical structure of the individual document, and inheritance of the attribute information is specified in the attribute information of the structural document. The inheritance designation information is described, and the attribute information is inherited according to the description, whereby the attribute information setting / specification processing is executed.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to an attribute information processing method in a structured document processing system, and more particularly to a plurality of document processing software including a Japanese document processing mechanism in performing processing including document creation for one or more types of documents. While using
Setting / specification processing for the attribute information of the document format required when outputting the contents of the structured document that holds the hierarchical structure of the individual document created by using the document processing software as a structure The present invention relates to an attribute information processing method in a structured document processing system that can be easily executed in accordance with inheritance processing.

At present, OA systems are generally used, and OA resources such as software and document files are increasing. Therefore, it is required that various documents can be easily created and managed as structural documents while utilizing these resources. Then, the setting process for the attribute information of the document format required when outputting the document managed by the created structural document is
It is hoped that it will be easily and error-free.

[Conventional technology]

In the conventional OA processing system, the processing is performed individually by using the software corresponding to the purpose of creating the created one (Japanese sentence, line drawing, image, graph, English sentence, etc.).

However, recently, it has been considered to make a document processing system in such a manner that the above individual processes can be appropriately called and processed as needed. Such a document processing system will be referred to as a structured document processing system in this specification. However, in the structured document processing system, it is necessary to output a document managed by the created structured document. It is desired that the setting process for the attribute information (print format information, framework information, etc.) of the following document format can be executed easily and without error.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]

As described above, in the conventional case, the accumulated OA resources can be used only by the system corresponding to each purpose, and existing OA resources such as existing software and document files can be used.
It was not possible to use resources as needed.

The present invention enables a desired individual document to be created while using the document processing software, and simplifies the setting process for the attribute information of the document format required when outputting the contents of the created document file. The goal is to be able to do it correctly and without error.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

FIG. 1 shows the principle configuration of the present invention. Reference numeral 1-i in the figure
Is an individual document, 2-1, 2-2, ... Is a document file that holds the contents of the individual document, 5 is a document processing function unit that executes individual document processing, 6 is a structural document, and 7 is a document that holds the document contents. A holding function unit, 5-1 is an attribute information inheritance processing function, 5-2 is attribute information output, 5-11 is a reception processing unit, 5-12 is an inheritance designation determination unit, 5-13 is an inheritance destination detection unit, 5- 14 is the inheritance source detection unit,
Reference numeral 5-15 represents an attribute information inheritance processing unit, 5-16 represents an attribute information setting unit, and 5-17 represents an attribute information output unit.

The desired individual documents, such as individual office documents, technical documents, reports, guidebooks, manuals, technical manuals, etc., which are actually to be created, generally include the document name, cover,
It has a hierarchical structure as in Chapter 1, Section 1.1, Section 1.2, ..., Chapter 2 ,. In the case of the present invention, attention is paid to the hierarchical structure (tree structure) of the individual document, and the structured document 6-i is described in which the logical structure corresponding to the hierarchical structure is described as a structure. Then, according to the structural document 6-i, the document files 2-1 and 2 in which the contents of the individual document are stored
−2,… is instructed.

The document processing function unit 5 uses a document processing software group, such as a Japanese document processing mechanism or a graph processing mechanism, to perform the process of creating or modifying the individual document. An attribute information inheritance processing function 5-1 for performing setting / specification processing of attribute information in the document format required for printing output of the above.

When printing out individual documents, the structural document 6 shown in the figure
For example, node (section 1.1) # 5 or node (1.2
Section) # 6 or node (Section 2.1) # 7, ..., etc. When printing the contents such as the number of characters per line, the document size attribute information such as paper size, character pitch, line feed pitch, etc. It is necessary to give each time. From now on, the illustrated node # 5, node # 6, node # 7 in the structure document 6-i,
The attribute information regarding the document format is described in the attribute information in the node # 8 and the like. At this time, the inheritance indicating the inheritance of the attribute information is given to the lower node that will inherit the attribute information of the same document format (may be the same in some document formats) as the node located at the upper level of the tree structure. The designated information is described.

Reception processing unit 5-11 in the attribute information inheritance processing function 5-1
Accepts a request for setting attribute information about the document format or a specific request. The inheritance designation determination unit 5-12 determines whether the attribute information about the document format of the individual document to be processed describes specific document format information or inheritance designation information. . Inheritance detection unit 5-13
When the inheritance designation information is described as the attribute information of the document format, detects all the inheritance destination nodes located in the lower level of the tree structure. The inheritance source detection unit 5-14 detects an inheritance source node located at a higher position in the tree structure when the inheritance designation information is described as the attribute information in the document format. Attribute information setting unit 5-16 of attribute information inheritance processing unit 5-15
When there is a request for setting attribute information, the inheritance destination detection unit 5
Set the attribute information of the specified document format for the node detected by -13. Attribute information inheritance processing unit 5-15
The attribute information output unit 5-17 of the node outputs the attribute information in the document format of the node detected by the inheritance source detection unit 5-14 as the attribute information regarding the specified individual document when there is a request for specifying the attribute information. Identify.

[Action]

The structural document 6-i prepared as described above includes, for each node, (i) information indicating in what hierarchical structure the own node occupies, and (ii) own node. Information about which document processing software the node is associated with, (iii) Information about which document file 2-1-2-2, ... is associated with the document content of its own node However, the attribute information regarding the own node is also described. In the case of the present invention, as one of the attribute information, attribute information regarding the document format is described.

When the reception processing unit 5-11 shown in the figure receives a request for setting attribute information regarding the document format, the inheritance destination detection unit 5-
13 detects all the nodes that are the inheritance destinations of the designated node (corresponding to the individual document). Upon receiving this detection result, the attribute information setting unit 5-16 sets the designated attribute information received by the reception processing unit 5-11 in these nodes (if already set, it means updating). By doing so, the setting process of the attribute information of the document format is executed.

On the other hand, when the acceptance processing unit 5-11 accepts the request for specifying the attribute information regarding the document format, the inheritance source detection unit 5-
14 detects the node that is the inheritance source of the designated node. Upon receiving this detection result, the attribute information output unit 5-17 specifies the attribute information of the document format set in the detected node as the attribute information regarding the node that has made the output request, and displays it on the display screen. And output to.

As described above, in the present invention, when it is possible to create a desired individual document while using the document processing software, the attribute information regarding the document format is set according to the inheritance process. There is no need to set information for each individual document. from now on,
You can easily set or change the document format information and eliminate errors.

〔Example〕

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. Symbols 2A, 2 in the figure
B, ..., 2X is a document file that holds the contents of individual documents, 3
Represents a document processing software group, and 5 represents a document processing function unit. Further, 10 is a structured document processing system for controlling the whole, and 11 is the whole structured document file. In the document processing software group 3, 3-
1 is a Japanese document processing mechanism, 3-2 is a line drawing processing mechanism, 3-
3 is an image processing mechanism, 3-4 is a tabulation calculation processing mechanism, 3
-5 is a graph processing mechanism, 3-6 is a list processing mechanism, 3-
Reference numeral 7 represents an English document processing mechanism. The structural documents referred to in the present invention exist in the structured document file 11, respectively.

The document processing software group 3 may be, for example, an existing software group that has been individually present in the past. Then, each existing file (document file shown in the figure) existing corresponding to the existing software group is present.
2A, line drawing file 2B, etc.) are unified under the structured document file 11. It can be considered that a structural document prepared corresponding to an individual document plays a role of a grouping for the unification.

Under the control of the structured document processing system 10, the document processing function unit 5 has a Japanese document processing mechanism 3-1 and a line drawing processing mechanism 3-.
2 is called as appropriate to create, modify, or delete a desired document (the desired document is called an individual document). At this time, for example, when the Japanese document processing mechanism 3-1 operates to create a Japanese sentence in the content of the individual document, the created Japanese sentence is created in the illustrated document file 2A, for example. . When creating a line drawing in the content of the individual document, the line drawing processing mechanism 3-2 is activated and created in the line drawing file 2B.

The individual documents are roughly classified into items such as (i) cover page, (ii) chapter 1 ..., (iii) chapter 2, ..., (iv) reference documents, and further, for example, the contents of the above-mentioned chapter 2. If the text includes a Japanese sentence and a line drawing, a “structured document” that gives the hierarchical structure of the individual document as a structure is created and stored in the illustrated structured document file 11 and the contents of the document are stored. Based on the above, predetermined storage positions of the document file 2A, the line drawing file 2B, ... Are linked.

In this way, the documents created by using the existing document processing function are unified for each individual document based on the contents of the structural document. In addition, based on the contents of the structural document, the individual document files 2A, 2B, ...
Can be accessed.

FIG. 3 is a partial schematic diagram of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 in the figure
Is a document, 1-i is an individual document, 2-1, 2-2, ... Is a document file that holds the contents of the individual document, 3-1, 3-2 ,. A structure document definition used as a template for creating a structure document corresponding to an individual document, 5 is a document processing function unit for executing individual document processing, 6 is a structure document, and 7 is a document holding function for holding document contents. Represents a part.

As the document 1, for example, a paper, a report, a letter, a technical manual, etc. exist, but a typical hierarchical structure of the paper is described as a structure corresponding to a certain kind of document, for example, a paper. A structural document definition 4 is prepared.

It can be considered that the structural document definition 4 is prepared for each of various documents. For example, the illustrated document, the cover, the chapter 1, section 1.1, ...
It has nodes (# 1, # 2, ...) Expanded into a tree structure like this. As will be described later, each node (# 1, # 2, ...) Describes attribute information such as information about a tree structure, software used, and information about a document format at the time of printing.

The document processing software group 3-1, 3-2, ... Holds software used for executing the processing corresponding to each node.

When creating the individual document, the document processing function unit 5 creates the contents corresponding to the individual document 1-i and stores the contents in the document files 2-1, 2-2 ,. At this time, the document content is created in association with the node indicated by the content of the one structural document definition 4-j. At this time, the nodes shown in the structural document definition 4-j may be partially modified as needed. And created individual document 1
Create and hold a structural document 6-i for -i. For example, in the end node of the tree structure document 6-i,
The document name of the corresponding document file 2 is described, and the structural document 6-i and the individual document 1-i are linked by this.

FIG. 4 shows the contents of one embodiment of the structural document shown in FIG. Reference numeral 12-1 in the drawing is a self ID, which represents a node ID of each node in the structural document 6-i shown in FIG. 12-2 is a parent ID, which is the ID of the parent node of the node of interest, 12-3 is the head child ID, which is the ID of the node located at the head among the nodes that are children of the node of interest, 12- Four
Is an ID of an upper ID that belongs to the same layer as the node of interest and is located immediately above, and 12-5 is an ID of a node that also belongs to the same layer and located immediately below
D and 12-6 are content setting information that indicates whether or not the content has already been set for the node of interest. 12-7 is content type information that indicates the software used for the node of interest. 12-8 is a document file name, which indicates a document file that stores the content of a node of interest when the content of the node of interest is set, 12-9 is attribute information, and the node of interest Is given as attribute information such as information as to whether or not inheritance is performed in the present invention. At this time,
In this attribute information 12-9, inheritance designation information indicating the inheritance of attribute information is described for the lower nodes that will inherit the same attribute information as the nodes located higher in the tree structure.

In addition, in FIG. 4, a portion with a parenthesis is used to create the structural document 6-i corresponding to the individual document 1-i for the definition given in the structural document definition 4-j shown in FIG. It shows the places where additions and modifications were made.

Regarding the own ID # 3 in FIG. 4, the node #
In (3), (i) the parent node is the node # 1, (ii) the leading child node is the node # 5, (iii) the immediate upper node is the node # 2, and (iv) the immediate subordinate node is the node. # 4
And (v) the content has not been set yet, (vi) the software used is the Japanese document processing mechanism, and (vi)
It has been clarified that i) the document file has not been prepared yet, and (viii) predetermined attribute information or inheritance designation information is described.

The structural file 6-i and the corresponding individual document 1-i (its contents) are linked by the "file name" 12-8 shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 shows a processing mode of a portion of the document processing function unit that uses the document processing software.

The document processing function unit 5 selects a node targeted for content processing in the structural document 6-i (processing). For example, if the creation of contents is instructed (processing),
The content of "content type" 12-7 for the node is checked (processing). If the software used is, for example, the Japanese document processing mechanism 3-1, the software is used to perform the processing. That is, in this case, the document is created, and the name of the file storing the document contents is described in the "file name" 12-8 shown in FIG.

Next, a setting process for setting / changing the document format attribute information and a specifying process for specifying what the set document format attribute information is will be described.

As described in the embodiment of the structure document in FIG. 4, each node of the structure document manages the attribute information regarding the document format. This attribute information management manages the attribute information itself when the attribute information from the upper node is not inherited, and conversely manages the inheritance designation information indicating the inheritance of the attribute information when inheriting the attribute information from the upper node. Will be done. FIG. 6 shows an example of this inheritance relationship. In this embodiment, node # 2 (Chapter 1), node # 4 (title 1), node # 5 (text 1), node # 1 (paper)
The inheritance designation information is managed so as to inherit the attribute information in the document format of node # 3 (Chapter 2), node # 6 (title 2), node # 7 (text 2), and node # 1 (paper) In this example, the attribute information itself is managed without inheriting the attribute information in the document format. In the present invention, when the attribute information of the upper node having such an inheritance relationship is set (updated), the attribute information of the lower node is automatically set (updated) in synchronization with the attribute information. The configuration will be adopted.

That is, to explain more concretely in the example of FIG. 6, the number of characters per line which is the attribute information of the node # 1 (paper) is 50.
When the characters are changed to 40 characters, as shown in FIG. 7, node # 2 (Chapter 1), node # 4 (title 1), and node # 5 (node 1), which are the inheritance destinations of node # 1 (paper), The number of characters per line of the attribute information in the text 1) will be automatically changed from the previous 50 characters to 40 characters, whereas the node that is not the inheritance destination of node # 1 (paper) # 3 (Chapter 2), Node # 6 (Title 2) and Node # 7
As for the number of characters per line of the attribute information in (text 2), the previous 30 characters are retained.

FIG. 8 shows a print result of a document managed by a structural document having such a management form of attribute information, taking a specification document of a patent application as an example.

Next, the process of identifying the attribute information of the set document format will be described.

It is assumed that the user requests the node that manages the inheritance designation information as the attribute information to display the attribute information of the node. Since the node that manages the inheritance designation information does not manage the specific attribute information (it is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the specific attribute information is also managed), in such a case, Detects an inheritance source node that manages specific attribute information by tracing the upper nodes, and processes the attribute information managed by the detected inheritance source node as the requested attribute information. It will be.

FIG. 9 shows the processing contents at this time. FIG. 9 (a) shows the logical structure of the structural document, and FIG. 9 (b) shows the management state of the attribute information of each node of this structural document (the node described as "inherit" is inherited). 9 manages the designated information, and the node described as “setting” manages the specific attribute information).
FIG. 6C illustrates a flowchart executed when a display request for attribute information is made to the node 5. As shown in this flowchart, when the node 5 is requested to display the attribute information regarding the "framework", it is first determined whether or not the inheritance designation information is described in the node 5, and the inheritance designation is performed. When specific attribute information is managed without being described, it is determined that the attribute information is the attribute information of the node 5 and displayed, and conversely, inheritance designation information is described. At times, it is possible to display the attribute information set in the node 5 by tracing the node 1 that is the inheritance source node and displaying the specific attribute information about the “framework” of the node 1. is there.

When a split request is made to a node of a structural document and the split node manages inheritance designation information, the upper node is traced to a specific node in the same manner as the attribute information display request processing. It is necessary to detect the inheritance source node that manages the attribute information, and set the attribute information of the detected inheritance source node to the divided nodes.

FIG. 10 illustrates the processing content at this time. FIG. 10 (a) illustrates the logical structure of a structural document.
FIG. 10 (b) shows a flowchart executed when a division request is made to the node 3 of this logical structure. As shown in this flow chart, when there is a division request to the node 3, first, it is judged whether or not the inheritance designation information is described in the node 3, and the inheritance designation information is not described in a concrete manner. When such attribute information is managed, the process of splitting is started as it is. On the contrary, when the inheritance designation information is described,
The process of setting the specific attribute information of the node 1 in the node 3 at the time of division is executed by tracing up to the inheritance source node 1. In this way, the specific attribute information required after division can be obtained.

When the capacity of a document to be created becomes large, a plurality of users create their own documents and then integrate the documents, which is a so-called integration process. In such a case, the node replacement will be executed, and the attribute information replacement process will be executed in conformity with this.

FIG. 11 illustrates the processing content at this time. FIG. 11 (a) illustrates the logical structure of the integrated structural document, and FIG. 11 (b) illustrates the flowchart executed at this time. As shown in this figure, in accordance with the node replacement, what has been managing the inheritance designation information until then is processed to manage the concrete attribute information.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the contents of document files created by a plurality of respective document processing functions are unified in the form of a structured document, and existing OA resources are appropriately used. It becomes possible. Then, the setting process for the attribute information in the document format, which is necessary when outputting the document managed by the created structured document, can be easily realized without any error according to the inheritance process.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a partial block diagram of a main portion, FIG. 4 is the contents of a structural document, and FIG. 5 is a document processing function. FIG. 6 is an example of an inheritance relationship of attribute information, FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of attribute information update processing, FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of an example of printed output, FIG. 9, FIG. 10 and 11 are explanatory views of the processing of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a document, 1-i is an individual document, 2 is a document file, 3 is a document processing software group, 4 is a structural document definition,
5 is a document processing function unit, 5-1 is an attribute information inheritance processing function,
5-12 is an inheritance designation determination unit, 5-13 is an inheritance destination detection unit, 5-
Reference numeral 14 is an inheritance source detection unit, 5-15 is an attribute information inheritance processing unit, 5-
Reference numeral 16 is an attribute information setting unit, 5-17 is an attribute information output unit, 6 is a structure document, 7 is a document holding function unit, 10 is a structured document processing system, and 11 is a structured document file.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The contents of one or more types of documents are respectively stored in the document file (2), and
In the document processing system having the document processing software group (3) for processing the respective documents, a plurality of document processing software including a Japanese document processing mechanism (3-1) is provided as the document processing software group (3). 3-i) is used, and the documents created by the document processing software (3-i) are stored and used in the document file (2), respectively, and the document processing software is used. A document processing function unit (5) for executing an individual document process including a process of creating an individual document (1-i) while using at least one of the group (3) is provided, and the document processing function unit (5) corresponds to each of the individual documents. And a structured document file (11) holding a structured document in which a logical structure corresponding to the hierarchical structure in the individual document is described as a structure, and the structured document is the individual document. 1-i) is described, link information for linking to the document file (2) holding the 1-i) is described, the structural document (6-i) and the individual document (1-i) are held in association with each other, and Individual document (1-
i) Document format attribute information or inheritance designation information of the attribute information is described, and the document processing function unit (5) determines whether the attribute information or the inheritance designation information is described. According to the inheritance designation determining unit (5-12) and the determination result of the inheritance designation determining unit (5-12), the attribute information is set by the inheritance process,
Alternatively, an attribute information processing method in a structured document processing system characterized by comprising an attribute information inheritance processing unit (5-15) for specifying the attribute information assigned by the inheritance processing.