Patent ID: 8880643

Claim:
A method for forwarding document content in Extensible Markup Language Document Management (XDM), comprising: setting, in a rights document, a forwarding right of a forwarding sender, and setting a forwarding receiver list of the forwarding sender; setting document content to which the forwarding sender has the forwarding right, and setting received document content of a forwarding receiver, wherein the received document content comprises at least a part of the document content to which the forwarding sender has the forwarding right; receiving a forwarding request sent by the forwarding sender, wherein the forwarding request is used to forward the document content to the forwarding receiver; judging, according to the rights document, whether the forwarding sender has a forwarding right to the document content and whether the forwarding receiver has an access right to the document content; and when the forwarding sender has the forwarding right and the forwarding receiver has the access right, forwarding the document content to the forwarding receiver.