JPH0752444B2 - Document generator - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document generation device having a function of editing a document.

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 shows a block configuration of a conventional document editing apparatus.

Conventionally, when a design document or the like is created, a necessary item to be filled in is determined, a creation sheet is prepared, the created sheet is stored in the standard document storage memory 52, and the document editing device is based on the stored creation sheet. The document is edited by 51 and the created document is stored in the document storage memory 53.

In the document editing device configured as described above, in order to copy the contents from a certain designated document to another document, the designated document is extracted from the document storage memory 51 in advance, and both are compared, A method in which the user manually makes a copy, or a document is automatically copied by the copy function by the document editing device 51 may be considered.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, when creating a system design document, a program, or a module design document in system design, it is necessary to fill in a document with the same content many times, and it is necessary to specify the document each time. It is very troublesome to copy the part.

As a means for solving the above-mentioned problem, for example, a method of holding a relationship between document items that refer to the same content among a plurality of documents and the content and copying the content based on the relationship can be considered. However, this method has a drawback in that the specific content to be copied must be managed separately from the document, and the configuration becomes complicated. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the problems of the conventional document generating apparatus described above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a document generating apparatus that can create a document easily and accurately with no effort.

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention has been created based on a standard document format storage unit for storing a standard format of a document and each standard format stored in the standard format storage unit, based on the standard format. A standard format corresponding to a generation destination document in which the document is a generation source document, an item to be copied from the generation source document to the generation destination document, and a generation rule storage unit for storing a generation rule including position information of the item, Document editing means for performing processing such as input and deletion of documents according to the standard format stored in the standard format storage means, created document storage memory for storing created documents, and generation source specified from the created document storage memory The document is extracted, the corresponding standard document format is detected from the standard format storage means, and the detected The destination document is created by copying the contents described in the source document to the standard format of the destination document described in the generation rule corresponding to the standard document format based on the generation rule, and is stored in the created document storage memory. The above-mentioned object is achieved by including a document generating means for storing.

Operation According to the present invention, the document generation means detects the standard format of the designated generation source document and extracts the generation rule corresponding to the detected standard format from the generation rule storage means. Using the standard format of the destination document specified by the extracted generation rule, the contents written in the source document are copied based on the generation rule to create the destination document and store it in the created document storage memory. It was done.

Embodiments Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document generation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 is a created document storage memory in which documents created and created are stored. A standard document storage memory 20 is composed of a standard document format memory 21 and a generation rule memory 22. This standard document format memory 21
Stores the standard format of the created document. The generation rule memory 22 stores a generation rule for automatically generating a document. Reference numeral 30 denotes a document editing device, which is a means for inputting a standard format from the standard document format memory 21 to create and edit a document, and outputting it to the created document storage memory 10. Reference numeral 40 denotes a document generation device, which inputs the created document from the created document storage memory 10, inputs the specified production rule from the production rule memory 22, and follows the rule.
This is means for inputting a standard format from the standard document format memory 21 to create a document and outputting it to the created document storage memory 10. 50 is a control device for controlling the system.

The operation of the above configuration will be described below.

Normally, when creating a software design document, the design to be created is to make it compatible with other design documents when creating a database and to unify and common the entry method when there are many design document creators. Prepare a format for writing paper. The standard document format memory 21 stores the standard format of the design paper.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the standard format. Fig. 2 (a)
Is a module external specification format created by the program structure design document. FIG. 2B shows the format of the module internal specifications created by the module design document. Some items of the contents of the module external specifications created in the upstream process are described again in the items of the module internal specifications created in the downstream process. When the same information is described many times, the content of the information may become inaccurate, or the information may be corrected in the downstream process so that it cannot return to the upstream. Therefore, in the standard format of documents created in the upstream process,
A generation rule is added so that the rule has the standard format of the document created in the downstream process and the information of the items automatically generated from the document created in the upstream.

FIG. 3 shows the second specification from the module external specifications of FIG.
It is an example of a route for automatically generating the module internal specifications of FIG. FIG. 3 (a) is a generation rule attached to the standard format of FIG. 2 (a), and FIG.
It is a generation rule attached to the standard format of FIG.

When a document is created, this creation rule is composed of standard format information of the created document and position information of items whose contents are automatically copied to the creation destination document. The generation rule of the standard format of the generated document has only the position information of the items automatically generated.

The document generation device 40 is activated by the control device 50. The document editing device 40 extracts the generation source document designated by the control device 50 from the generated document storage memory 10, detects the standard format of the document, and further generates the generation rule attached to the standard format in the generation rule memory. Extract from 22. The document generation device 40 extracts the standard format specified by the rule from the standard document format memory 21 according to the generation rule. Further, items to be automatically copied are extracted from the original document, embedded in the standard format, and output to the created document storage memory 10.

FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b) are examples in which the document is created in the example of FIG. The automatically generated module internal specifications are
Items determined in the upstream process (module name, No.,
(Outline of function) is automatically generated, and only the items to be newly created need to be described.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the standard format of a document is provided with the information to be automatically generated as a rule, so that the document created in the downstream process can be automatically generated from the document created in the upstream process.

In the embodiments described above, each means may be realized by using a microcomputer.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention,
Without managing the specific content to be copied separately from the created document, it is possible to automatically copy the content created in the upstream process to the document created in the downstream process, avoid duplication of the created content, The efficiency of accurate document creation can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document generation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a document of a standard format according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a document of a generation rule according to the present embodiment. 4 is a plan view showing an example of document generation in the present embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a conventional document editing apparatus. 10 ... Created document storage memory, 20 ... Standard document storage memory, 21 ... Standard document format memory, 22 ... Generation rule memory, 30 ... Document editing device, 40 ... Document generation device, 50 ... Control device .

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A standard document format storage unit for storing a standard format of a document, and a document created based on the standard format corresponding to each standard format stored in the standard format storage unit as a generation source document. And a standard format corresponding to the generation destination document, an item to be copied from the generation source document to the generation destination document, and a generation rule storage unit that stores a generation rule including position information of the item, and the standard format storage unit. A document editing unit that performs processing such as inputting and deleting documents based on the created standard format; a created document storage memory that stores created documents; and a specified generation source document extracted from the created document storage memory, The corresponding standard document format is detected from the standard format storage means, and the detected standard document format is detected. A destination document is created and stored in the created document storage memory by copying the contents described in the source document to the standard format of the destination document described in the generation rule corresponding to A document generation device comprising a document generation unit.