Patent ID: 8812696

Claim:
An Extensible Markup Language (XML) document management method, comprising: receiving an XML document management operation request sent via an XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) protocol, by an XML Document Management Server (XDMS); determining that the XML document management operation request is in an entrustment mode, by the XDMS, the entrustment mode allowing a client to entrust its management operation on an XML document to another client; and determining whether to perform an operation described in the XML document management operation request in accordance with access permission information corresponding to an XML document, by the XDMS, wherein the access permission information is stored in an XML document of the XDMS; wherein the process of determining that the XML document management operation request is in the entrustment mode comprises: obtaining an identity identifier of an XML Document Management Client (XDMC) sending the XML document management operation request and the identity identifier of the owner of the XML document, in accordance with the XML document management operation request, by the XDMS; determining that the identity identifier of the XDMC sending the XML document management operation request does not match the identity identifier of the owner of the XML document, by the XDMS.