Patent ID: 7281204
Filing Date: 2007-10-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A hub document preparation method, for use in a computer system having a file system to manage data by storing the data in a file-system directory, for preparing a hub document which describes entity declarations for referring to entities of documents individually corresponding to a plurality of non-structured documents in order to prepare a single hub document format structured document from the plurality of non-structured documents, the method comprising: setting in advance one original document file-system directory for storing the plurality of non-structured documents and one structured document file-system directory for storing a plurality of structured documents obtained by conversion of the plurality of non-structured documents; storing, each time one of the plurality of non-structured documents to be included in the hub document format structured document is prepared or edited, the one of the plurality of non-structured document into the original document file-system directory; converting the plurality of non-structured documents stored in the original document file-system directory into the plurality of structured documents and storing the plurality of structured documents into the structured document file-system directory; determining whether each of the plurality of structured documents is present in the structured document file-system directory; and in response to the presence of each of the plurality of structured documents in the structured document file-system directory, automatically adding the entity declarations to the hub document by acquiring document names of each of the plurality of structured documents stored in the structured document file-system directory and preparing corresponding entity declarations referring to each of the plurality of structured documents stored in the structured document file-system directory.