JPH0715683B2 - Print Form Processing Method in Structured Document Processing System - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [General Description] 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 Structured so that when printing out a structured document in which the hierarchical structure of the individual document created using software is retained as a structure, the format information for the printing can be designated as appropriate. Regarding the print format processing method in the document processing system, it is possible to create a desired individual document while using the document processing software, and to make it possible to appropriately change the format of the content of the created document file when printing. For the purpose, the contents of the document file created by each word processing software are added to the above individual document. In addition to providing a structured document file that is integrated by a structure document corresponding to the hierarchical structure, the format information for print output is described in the attribute information of the above structure document in a rewritable manner, and the relevant format information is written. It is passed to a document file and printed.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a print format processing method in a structured document processing system, and 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. In addition to using, when printing out a structured document in which the hierarchical structure of an individual document created while using the document processing software is retained as a structure, the format information for the printing is appropriately added. The present invention relates to a print format processing method in a structured document processing system that can be designated.

Currently, OA systems are being used generally, and OA resources such as software and document files are increasing. Therefore, it is demanded that various documents be easily created and managed as structured documents while utilizing these resources. Even if the structured document is created in different formats, it is desired that the structured document be output in a predetermined format when printed out.

[Conventional technology]

In the conventional OA processing system, the software is created for each of the objects to be created (Japanese sentences, line drawings, images, graphs, English sentences, etc.) and processed individually.

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, individual documents are often created, for example, separately. It is expected that.

[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 are used.
It was not possible to use resources as needed.

Even when the desired individual document can be created while using the document processing software, for example, when printing the content of the document file that is created separately, the content of the document file is not changed,
It is desired to print in the desired format.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to enable a desired individual document to be created while using document processing software, and to appropriately change the format for printing the contents of the created document file.

[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, 5-1 is a print processing function, 6 is a structural document, Reference numeral 7 denotes a document holding function unit that holds document contents.

The Japanese document files 2-1 and 2-2 in the upper part of FIG. 1 are the same as the Japanese document files 2-1 and 2-2 in the lower part of the figure, and DATA is the content of the document (text data), FOM represents the format information transcribed on the document file. The structural document file 6-i in the upper part of FIG. 1 and the structural document file 6-i in the lower part of FIG.
# 9 represents a tree-structured node described later.

The desired individual documents, such as individual office documents, technical documents, reports, guides, manuals, technical anials, etc., that are actually to be created are generally the text title, cover page, Chapter 1, Section 1.1, It has a hierarchical structure as in 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 structure document 6-i, the document files 2-1 and 2-2 in which the contents of the individual document are stored
You will be instructed to ...

The document processing function unit 5 uses a group of document processing software such as a Japanese document processing mechanism and a graph processing mechanism to perform processing for creating and modifying the individual document. Print function 5 to print out
It has -1.

Each of the document files 2-1, 2-2, ... Prepares, for example, format information for print output when created, but as in the case of the present invention, the structural document 6 It is often the case that each node of −i is created by different document processing software, or each node is created separately. Therefore, it is desired to print individual documents in a unified format in a desired form without modifying the contents of the created document files 2-1, 2-2, .... For this purpose, the illustrated node # 2, node # 5, node # 6, node # in the structural document 6-i are shown.
In the attribute information of 7, node # 8, node # 9, etc., the format information for printout is described in a rewritable manner.

[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 and 2-2, ... the node own node is associated with However, the attribute information regarding the own node is also described. The "content information" in, for example, the node # 2 shown in FIG. 1 corresponds to information on which document file (text data) stored in which document file is associated with the "format information". Is described in the above-mentioned attribute information.

As the attribute information, various kinds of information can be described, and as one of them, the format information according to the present invention is rewritably described.

When printing an individual document, format information described as attribute information of nodes # 2 and # 5, for example,
It is transcribed as the illustrated format information FOM in the corresponding document file 2-1 or 2-2. Then, the print processing function 5-1
Reads the contents (text data DATA and format information FOM) of the format-modified document file and prints it.
That is, by describing the format information in the attribute information in each node as desired, the individual document can be printed in the desired uniform format.

〔Example〕

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. Symbols 2A, 2 in the figure
B, ..., 2X are document files that hold the contents of individual documents, 3 is a document processing software group, and 5 is a document processing function unit. Further, 10 is a structured document processing system for controlling the whole, and 11 is a 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, and 3-5 is graph processing. Reference numeral 3-6 indicates a list processing mechanism, and reference numeral 3-7 indicates an English document processing mechanism. The structured documents referred to in the present invention are present in the structured document file 11, respectively.

The document processing software group 3 may be, for example, an existing software group that has existed individually from 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 integrated under the structured document file 11. It can be considered that the structural document prepared corresponding to the individual document plays the role of the integration for the integration.

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 contents 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 document is, for example, (i) cover page, (ii) chapter 1,
(Iii) Chapter 2, ..., (iv) Items are roughly divided into items such as references, and further, for example, when the content of Chapter 2 includes a Japanese sentence and a line drawing, the hierarchical structure of the individual document is A “structured document” given as a structure is created and held in the structured document file 11 shown in the figure, and based on the contents of the document, predetermined storage locations such as the document file 2A, line drawing file 2B, ... Are linked. Be attached.

In this way, the documents created by using the existing document processing function are integrated for each individual document based on the contents of the structural document. Further, it becomes possible to appropriately access the individual document files 2A, 2B, ... Based on the contents of the structural document.

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 structural document definition used as a template for creating a structural document corresponding to an individual document, 5 is a document processing function unit that executes individual document processing, 6 is a structural document, and 7 is a document holding function that holds the document contents. Represents a part.

As Document 1, for example, there are papers, reports, letters, technical manuals, etc., but for a certain type of document, for example, a paper, a typical hierarchical structure of the paper was described as a structure. 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, cover, 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 print position 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, if necessary. And created individual document 1
Create and hold a structural document 6-i for -i. For example, in the terminal node of the tree structure of the 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 node that is the parent 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 directly above, 12-5 is an ID of a node that also belongs to the same hierarchy and located immediately below
D, 12-6 is content setting information that indicates whether or not the content has already been set for the node of interest, and 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 target node when the content is set, and 12-9 is attribute information, which is the target node The attribute information, such as the format information referred to in the present invention, when printing is performed is shown.

In addition, in FIG. 4, a portion in parentheses indicates that the structural document 6-i corresponding to the individual document 1-i is created with respect to 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 #
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 is described.

The "file name" 12-8 shown in FIG. 4 links the structural document 6-i and the corresponding individual document 1-i (its contents).

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.

FIG. 6 shows a processing flow of the format information transfer and the printing processing in the case of the present invention. Reference numeral 10 in the figure represents a structured document processing system shown in FIG. 2, and 3-1 represents a Japanese document processing mechanism.

Prior to the start of printing, the structured document processing system 10 determines whether a certain node in the structured document 6-i corresponding to the individual document to be printed uses the Japanese document processing mechanism 3-1. 6 Japanese document processing mechanism 3-
1 is created as a child process. Hereinafter, the following processing flow is performed. That is, (1) The system 10 instructs the processing mechanism 3-1 to perform edit processing or print processing. The processing mechanism 3-1 checks whether it is in an editable state and also in a printable state. And, no good (NG) or OK (OK) is returned.

(2) When the system 10 receives OK, it passes the format information to the processing mechanism 3-1. As format information,
(I) Line feed pitch, (ii) Character spacing, (iii) Number of lines per page, (iv) Number of characters per line, etc. are given. If NG is received, the process ends. Upon receiving the format information, the processing mechanism 3-1 checks whether it is in a processable state. Then, NG or OK is returned.

(3) When the system 10 receives OK, it passes the file name storing the document contents to the processing mechanism 3-1. If NG is received, the process ends. Upon receiving the file name, the processing mechanism 3-1 performs printing using the print processing function 5-1 based on the contents of the format-changed document file, as described with reference to FIG. Then, the processing mechanism 3-1 notifies the system 10 that the processing as the child process is completed.

(4) The system 10 knows the end of the Japanese document processing. Then, for example, the processing for the next node is started.

〔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 integrated in the form of a structural document, and existing OA resources can be used appropriately. Is possible. Then, when printing the document contents corresponding to each node, it is possible to print in a uniform format desired in the individual document. Also, it becomes easy to change the format.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE 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 the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 5 shows the processing mode of the document processing function section, and FIG. 6 shows the flow of the format information transfer and print processing in the case of the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 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, 6 is a structural document, and 7 is a document holding function. Part 10 is a structured document processing system, and 11 is a structured document file.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document processing system having a document processing software group (3) for storing the contents of one or a plurality of types of documents in a document file (2) and processing the documents. In the above, as the document processing software group (3), a plurality of document processing software (3-i) including the Japanese document processing mechanism (3-1) is used and created by the document processing software (3-i). Each of the created documents is stored in the document file (2) and used, and at least one of the document processing software group (3) is used.
A document processing function unit (5) for executing an individual document process including a process for creating an individual document (1-i) while using each of them, and corresponding to each of the individual documents, a hierarchy in the individual document. The structured document has a structured document file (11) holding a structured document in which a logical structure corresponding to the structure is described as a structure, and the structured document is linked with a document file (2) holding the individual document (1-i). Link information is described,
The structure document (6-i) and the individual document (1-i) are held in association with each other, and format information for printing individual document contents is described as attribute information. Part (5) is the individual document (1-i)
Has a print processing function (5-1) for printing, and the print processing function (5-1) has changed the format of the result obtained by transferring the format information on the document file (2) when performing printing. A print format processing method in a structured document processing system characterized by printing based on the contents of a document file.