Patent ID: 7530017

Claim:
A document transformation system for transforming a structured document having structure information and character string information, comprising: template storing means for storing structure information having a specific pattern, as a template; template match detecting means for importing the structure information forming the structured document, and transformation location information indicating a transformation location of the structure information, and for detecting a match portion between the structure information and the template, with the exception of the transformation location indicated by the transformation location information, from objects to be matched, in the structure information; template replacing means for importing the structure information forming the structured document, and match information indicating the match portion, for replacing the match portion indicated by the match information, in the structure information with the template, and for outputting replaced structure information; and transforming means for importing the character string information forming the structured document, the replaced structure information, and a transformation rule for transformation of the structure information and character string information forming the structured document, for transforming the replaced structure information and the character string information thus imported, according to the transformation rule, and for outputting transformed structure information and transformed character string information.