Patent ID: 7113952

Claim:
A structured document display method for displaying a structured document for managing a structure of a plurality of documents, comprising the steps of: editing shared information included in said plurality of documents; storing said edited shared information and a date and an hour of generation of said shared information to correlate with each other; editing a structured document with a link describing the link relating to said shared information; storing said edited link-described document and a date and an hour of generation thereof to correlated with each other; when displaying said link-described structured document as a web page, displaying a web page in which shared information corresponding to the link-described structured document generation date and hour among said shared information arid shared information corresponding to a date and an hour of generation not corresponding to the link-described structured document generation date and hour are mixed; storing a version corresponding to said link-described structure document generation date and hour and a version corresponding to said shared information generation date and hour; comparing said stored link-described structured document version with the stored shared information version; and displaying a web page in which a portion displaying shared information having a version corresponding to said link-described structured document version and a portion displaying shared information of the latest version among said shared information are embedded as a result of the comparison.