Patent ID: 7765472

Claim:
A method of processing at least one digital graphical non-editable original document represented in a predetermined markup language in which at least one software display program of a browser type is used for displaying such a document, the method comprising the following steps: i) transforming the non-editable original document displayed in read mode into an editable version in the markup language according to a set of predefined transformation rules, the transformation rules incorporating a set of rules for writing to the document to add into the editable version guidance information capable of guiding a reverse transformation; ii) interacting via the software display program with the editable version in order to modify the editable version according to the set of writing rules; and iii) reverse transforming, by using said guidance information, the editable version thus modified into a non-editable version in read mode incorporating the modifications made during step ii), wherein the direct transformation according to step i) is able to incorporate/move nodes written in the SVG type markup language into a non-SVG namespace in order to deactivate the effects of the said nodes, and the reverse transformation according to step iii) is able to retrieve the SVG nodes moved into a non-SVG namespace.