Patent ID: 8442996

Claim:
A method for managing variable content resources in a data processing environment, each resource comprising a tree structure of a set of objects, and at least one or more of these objects being presented in a resource as forming an object transcluded individually or as a part of a larger object transcluded from a source object, via one or more intermediate transcluded objects, so that a modification made to the source object can be propagated up to said transcluded object, wherein: the data processing environment is configured for storing transclusion information based on object identifiers, information from which source objects can be presented in transcluded objects, and of further storing transclusion types including standard transclusion and implicit transclusion, such implicit transclusion being a transclusion between descendant objects of a transcluded larger object, where said descendant objects were transcluded from one another in the source larger object, the method comprises the step consisting, when modifying an object, in generating or updating, for each object transcluded from said object, an identifier of the source object to be taken into account for this transcluded object, depending on information of distance between the modified object and said transcluded object, wherein said information of distance is based on the number of transclusions between the modified object and the transcluded object and of the types of these transclusions.