JPH0721165A - Data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the data processor which alters only data in some cells of a table included in a document and reuses document contents other than the altered part. CONSTITUTION:A cell information group managing means 110 holds and manages cell information regarding the cells wherein the data are altered among cells constituting the table included in the document. A cell data group holding means 120 holds a new data group described as the data in the cells included in the cell information managed by the cell information group managing means 110. A cell data group altering means 130 alters the data in the object cells on the basis of the new data group.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data processing device for executing processing on a table in an electronic document.

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2. Description of the Related Art Recently, desktop publishing (D
As can be seen in the TP) system, the development of advanced document processing technology is remarkable. BACKGROUND ART A document processing technique has conventionally adopted a structured document in which a document is divided into a logical structure and a layout structure. As such a structured document, for example, the international standard ODA [ISO / IS 86
13, Information Processing-Text and Office system-
Office Document Architecture (ODA) and Interchang Fo
rmat (1988)] is available.

Further, it has become possible to construct a system for automatically processing the fixed-form work of an office for a document at a practical level by utilizing the logical structure of the document in the structured document. Examples of such a system include, for example, “The IPSJ 46th (first half of 1993) National Convention,“ Estimation Specification Creation Support System Using Structured Document System ”, Atsuhito Kadoma, Makoto Takeoka, Hajime Mahama ] Are known.

On the other hand, recently, even before the development of the document processing technology, data processing systems such as database systems and spreadsheet software have been used in offices. The demand for treating the output data of the data processing system as a document is found everywhere in the office. In particular, if they are routine tasks, making data automatically available as documents is important in terms of improving office productivity. Note that there are mainly three methods described below as methods of automatically treating a data as information of a document and making it available as a document.

(1) Document Generation Method This is a method for automatically converting an arbitrary amount of data into a document by using a model of data and document parts. For example, when a file consisting of text data and a document with a paragraph template are input, the text data separated by line feed symbols is regarded as the content information of one paragraph, the paragraph template is referenced, and a document consisting of paragraphs is created. Convert. That is, a paragraph corresponding to the amount of text data is generated from the template of the paragraph which is a document part. The command that enables such processing is the textfilt command (this is [InterIeaf 5
File Format and File Conversion, 1991, Interleaf In
c.] is defined in).

It should be noted that there is no conventional document generation method for generating a table.

(2) Document conversion system As this system, the one disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-237164 is known. The device disclosed in this publication considers data according to a specific format as a character string of a cell of a table and gives a grid-like ruled line to the data to create a table. is there. In this device, the format of the table such as the width of the columns of the table and the alignment of the character strings in the cell cannot be converted by the user, and the conversion cannot be performed. It is only converted into a table.

As another document conversion method, [Global V
iew / View Point VP Data Capture Operation Manual, 1
991, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.] (hereinafter referred to as literature) is also known. In the one described in this document, the above-mentioned JP-A-63-237164
Compared to the one disclosed in the publication, the user can consider and convert the format related to the table such as the column width of the table and the type of the character string in the cell (for example, text, numerical value, date, etc.).

(3) Pour-in method This is a method in which the data is regarded as the content of the document and the content information of the existing document is changed to incorporate the data into the document. By using this method, the data can be included in a part of the document, and the part of the document other than the content information to be changed can be reused.

Further, in the pouring method, when attention is paid to the one in which the content information of the table is changed in order to fetch the data into a part of the table of the document, there are the following in the past.

That is, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 4-206722 and Japanese Patent Application No. 5-2855, filed by the applicant of the present application, the change of the content information of the table can be performed by changing the contents of the document whose data is to be changed. The position of the table contents part is specified by using the logical structure and the attributes in the contents part of the table, and the data is changed.

Further, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-235675, the data of all the cells of the table in the electronic document are automatically changed. In this device, the ruled lines of the table are discriminated and determined, and a predetermined change process is performed on the data of all cells such as blanking out the data of the cells surrounded by the ruled lines. That is, the ruled lines of the table are reused. As a device for extracting cell data, the one disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-116970 is known.

Further, in Japanese Patent Application No. 4-206722, Japanese Patent Application No. 5-2855, [Introduction to CDA, Japan Digital Equipment Co., Ltd., 1991], [CDA Tool Kit Programming Guide, Japan Digital Equipment Co., Ltd., 1991], By manipulating a document file or a document in internal format in the main memory of the document
There was a program that could describe the process of performing some process on the table cell (DTIF, Digital Ta
It is a document format called ble Interchange Format. ).

Further, conventionally, with the development of the DTP system, sophisticated electronic documents can be edited by the user. Of course, electronic documents may also include tables, so such tables must also be editable. Therefore, editing a table is performed by using an advanced DTP system [eg, Akane Document Editor Operation Manual, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., 1992, 12. ] Has become indispensable. In such a table, various edits can be made by focusing on the table cell, which is the smallest area surrounded by the vertical and horizontal ruled lines of the table. For example, in a cell, a text including a plurality of paragraphs, a figure, an image, a table, a text in a figure cell, or a table in a figure cell can be edited. Furthermore, styles such as typeface, character color, and character size can be set in the paragraph of the cell. You can also add shades, hatches, slashes, and colors to your cells.

On the other hand, the document processing work in the office includes fixed work and non-fixed work. Routine work can result in increased office productivity by providing a system for automatic processing.

Needless to say, a request for automatically processing the cells of the table is naturally generated. For example, to put the character string of the output result of the database into the cell of the table of the document,
Extract the cell data (character string) of the document table and write it to a file. Furthermore, in that case, (1) check whether the cell is a figure, raster, character, etc. (that is, check the content system), (2) check the paragraph of the cell, delete or add. Or (that is, manipulate the logical structure), (3) check and specify the content section information of the cell paragraph, and change the data (content information) (that is, specify the content section and operate the content information) ), Etc., automatic processing is desired.

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By the way, when there is an electronic document including a table, it may be desired to automatically change only the data of a selected cell in a part of the table and reuse the other part of the document. is there. For example, there is a document having a table of n rows and m columns. It may have document parts other than tables, that is, paragraphs and graphic frames. This is a case where the data in the cell in the i-th row (1 <i <n) of this table is changed to other data and the other portions are desired to be reused. In addition, it is important for the user to easily realize such a function in terms of improving the productivity of the office.

However, the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application No. 4-206.
722, Japanese Patent Application No. 5-2855, [CDA Primer, Japan Digital Equipment Co., Ltd., 1991] and [CDA Tool Kit Programming Guide, Japan Digital Equipment Co., Ltd., 1991], changed the cell data in the document. Then, it is possible to reuse the other parts of the document, but the user cannot easily realize a flexible change request for the table contents part.

That is, (a) Japanese Patent Application No. 4-206722 and Japanese Patent Application No. 5-2855.
In the issue, it is necessary to be familiar with the format of the file format of the table and then to write the content changing program according to the format of the file format, which is difficult for general users to realize. For example, when there is a document having a table with n rows and m columns, considering changing the data of the cell at the i-th row (1 <i <n) of the table to other data, the i-th row (1 <i <i
The description representing the content information of the cell corresponding to <n) has to be searched in accordance with the file format and the program for changing the content information has to be described, resulting in poor workability.

(B) In addition, in [CDA Primer, Japan Digital Equipment Co., Ltd., 1991] and [CDA Tool Kit Programming Guide, Japan Digital Equipment Co., Ltd., 1991], a document in the memory defined by the above-mentioned DTIF is described. It was only possible to write a program with a thorough knowledge of data structures (called aggregates).

(C) Further, in the case of Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-235675, reusable is limited to the ruled lines of the table, and other parts of the document including the table cannot be reused. That is, there is no mention of selecting some cells in the table and changing only the data in the cells, and reusing the data in the other cells. Further, not only the table but also the part other than the table in the document having the paragraphs and figures other than the table cannot be reused.

Further, when there is an electronic document including a table, there is a case where it is desired to periodically change the data of some cells of the table in addition to the above-mentioned processing. In such a case, the cell data may occasionally overflow more than the number of some cells in the table. That is, this is a case where the amount of cells in the table whose data is to be changed automatically and the data used for the change are not constant. For example, it is guaranteed that the data of n rows and m columns will be changed in the table of n rows and m columns each time the automatic change processing occurs, but that there is data of (n + 1) rows or more,
This is the case when it is not guaranteed for each process.

In such a case, it is desirable that the following matters be achieved. (A) Even if there is rare overflow data, it is good to avoid the risk of not being able to handle the overflow data by importing the data into a table and treating it as a document. (B) It is desirable that the user can easily realize such a function. (C) Moreover, it is preferable that the processing can be realized efficiently.

However, in the above-mentioned conventional system, there is no system or apparatus having such a function.
When the amount of data is indefinite, the conventional document generation method and document conversion method described above are available as methods for creating a table according to the amount of data.

However, since the data always exists up to the n-th line, whether the same table is generated up to the n-th line for each processing in the above-described conventional document generation method and document conversion method.
Processing to convert to the same table will be performed. With the development of the DTP system and the like, the table of the document becomes complicated content information having various styles, and the processing of generating and converting becomes complicated. Therefore, it is a costly process to make the same table up to the nth row for each process.

Further, when the cells of the document (that is, the table) edited in the advanced DTP system are automatically processed, (1) the processing of the cells of the table created by the advanced editing function can be performed.

The cells of the table created by the advanced editing function are cells that satisfy the items (a) to (d) described below.

(A) Cell content system The cells can have various content systems. That is, not only the text (character) contents but also various contents information such as figures, images and tables can be handled.

(B) Logical structure of cell and its style The inside of the cell has logical structure information and a style peculiar to the logical structure information. For example, a cell content system or a character content system has a logical structure that represents a paragraph. It can also have a style for the logical structure of paragraphs. For example, paragraph line spacing, character size,
Styles such as type and color.

(C) Cell style Having a cell style that defines the entire cell regardless of the logical structure information of the cell. For example the shade of a cell,
These include hatches, diagonal lines, and colors.

(D) Nested structure The logical structure information of a cell has content part information representing content information. This logical structure information is located below the table content part information. Logical structure information including content part information, which is located below certain content part information, is called a nested structure. A cell can have a nested structure by repeating any number of times. As a result, it is possible to have character content data in the graphic content cell. The advantages of the nested structure are as follows: [Murata Makoto, Hayashi Koichi, Isobe Toshiya, "Structured Document System (ODA) Extension: Nested Content, IPSJ 44th
First semester) National Convention, 4C-12].

It suffices if the following automatic processing can be performed on such a highly edited table cell.

(A) Examining or changing the cell content system. (B) The logical structure information (nested structure) of a cell is targeted for deletion and addition. (C) What is necessary is to change the content information of the cell content part information, that is, to change a character string, a figure, and the like, or to perform various processes by combining these.

(2) It is possible to realize the automatic processing function of the cells of the table with less burden on the user.

Is preferred.

However, the above-mentioned Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 62-2356.
In the one disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 75, it is possible to automatically change or extract the data in the table cell, but it is premised on a simple table cell consisting of ruled lines and text data. , It was not possible to perform automatic processing on the cells of the table created by the advanced editing as described above.

Japanese Patent Application Nos. 4-206722 and 5
No. 2855, [Introduction to CDA, Japan Digital Equipment Co., Ltd., 1991], [CDA Tool Kit Programming Guide, Japan Digital Equipment Co., Ltd., 1991], the table cells created by advanced editing are automatically To operate, it was necessary for the user to use a document format expressed in a predetermined format (such as a document file or a data structure in memory) to construct a program for processing table cells. . This was very difficult for ordinary users. Therefore, the realization of the processing function requires a great burden on the user.

An object of the present invention is to provide a data processing device capable of changing only the data of a part of cells of a table included in a document and reusing the document contents other than the changed part. It is in.

Another object of the present invention is to extend the existing table according to the number corresponding to the cell of the data to be newly described as the value of the cell of the table, and add the new table to the extended table. It is to provide a data processing device capable of creating a predetermined table by writing data.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a data processing device capable of updating the logical structure of cells in a table.

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The data processing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention holds cell information for holding and managing cell information regarding a cell to change data among a plurality of cells forming a table included in a document. Management means, cell data holding means for holding new data described as cell data included in the cell information, and cell data for changing the data of the cell based on the held contents in the cell data holding means And changing means.

In a second aspect based on the first aspect, the cell information managing means includes document data holding means for holding document data having table content information indicating a table composed of at least a plurality of cells, and It further comprises table content information searching means for searching the table content information from the document data holding means, and table content information holding means for holding the search result of the table content information searching means.

According to a third invention, in the first invention, the cell information managing means holds document data having one or more pieces of table content information indicating a table composed of at least a plurality of cells. And table content information search condition holding means for holding table content information search conditions when searching table content information indicating a specific table, and table content that matches the table content information search conditions from the document data holding means. Table content information search means for searching information, table content information holding means for holding the search result of the table content information search means, and cell information search for holding cell information search conditions for searching cell information about the cell The apparatus further comprises condition holding means and cell information searching means for searching cell information matching the cell information searching condition from the table content information holding means.

The data processing apparatus of the fourth invention comprises table content information holding means for holding ruled line information forming a table composed of a plurality of cells and information about the cells as table content information, and data of each of the plurality of cells. Cell data group holding means for holding a new data group described as, and when the number of cells corresponding to the data group is larger than the number of cells in the table content information, the cell data group holding means And a table content information expansion unit for expanding the table content information.

In a fifth aspect based on the fourth aspect, the table content information expansion means has a new table content information in which the number of cells corresponding to the data group is larger than the number of cells in the table content information. Cell information addition determination means for determining that it is necessary to add, a template management means for holding and managing a template referred to when generating table content information to be added, and a new cell information addition determination means. When it is determined that the new table content information needs to be added, new table content information is generated based on the template so as to correspond to the data group, and the new table content information is added to the table. And cell information addition processing means for adding to the table content information held in the content information holding means.

In a sixth aspect based on the fifth aspect, the template management means holds template condition holding means for holding template conditions set as conditions for determining ruled line information and cell-related information to be a template. A template search unit for searching the table content information holding unit for ruled line information and cell information matching the template condition; and a template holding unit for holding the ruled line information and the cell information searched by the template search unit as a template. And means.

The data processor of the seventh aspect of the present invention includes, for at least one cell of the plurality of cells forming the table, at least the content part information which is the value of the cell and the logic object information, and the logic of the cell. Structure information indicating a logical configuration, and cell information holding means for holding cell information configured with cell attribute information indicating the style of the entire cell,
Cell information management means for accessing and managing the cell information.

In an eighth aspect based on the seventh aspect, the cell information management means is based on the cell data holding means for holding new data described as the data of the one cell, and the new data. And cell data changing means for changing the content part information in the cell information in the cell information holding means.

In a ninth aspect based on the eighth aspect, the cell content system determining means for determining the content system of the cell by referring to the logical structure information in the cell information, and the cell content system determining means. If the determined cell content system is different from the content system of the new data, the cell content system changing means for changing the content system of the cell to the content system of the new data is further provided. ing.

In a tenth aspect based on the eighth aspect, there is further provided a logical structure updating means for updating the logical structure information of the one cell in accordance with the change processing result by the cell data changing means.

The eleventh invention is the tenth invention, wherein
When the logical structure information of the one cell includes a plurality of content part information, the logical structure updating means deletes the logical structure of the paragraph including the content part information whose data has not been changed. It further comprises deleting means.

A twelfth invention is the tenth invention, wherein
The logical structure updating means stores additional information holding means for holding information including a logical structure to be added and position information indicating a position where the logical structure is added, and based on the contents held by the additional information holding means, Cell logical structure adding means for adding a new logical structure to the logical structure information is further provided.

In a thirteenth aspect based on the seventh aspect, the cell information management means divides new data described as data for the one cell into a plurality of pieces of the new data. Information and cell data holding means for holding as cell data configured to have division data that is data divided by this division information,
The cell data held in the cell data holding means,
Cell data dividing means for taking out the divided cell data in an extraction order determined according to the division information, and a divided data holding means for holding a plurality of divided data taken out by the cell data dividing means in an order in which they are taken out, A row of a plurality of section data held in the section data holding means is associated with a row of content part information that appears in logical order in the logical structure information of the cell held in the cell information holding means in advance. Cell content part information designating means for designating content part information corresponding to the plurality of divided cell data, and cell content part information holding the content part information designated by the cell content part information designating means according to the set rule. The value of the content section attribute information representing the content information of the content section information stored in the storage section and the cell content section information storage section is set to the classification data. And partitioned cell data changing means for changing the contents held in the lifting means further being provided.

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In the data processor of the present invention, the cell data changing means is managed by the cell information managing means for a cell among the plurality of cells forming the table included in the document to change the data. Since the cell data included in the existing cell information is changed to the data held in the cell data holding means, the data of some cells in the table are changed, and the other part (that is, the document) is changed. Content)
Can be reused.

The cell information management means stores the table content information from the document data holding means for holding the document data having the table content information indicating the table composed of at least a plurality of cells by the table content information searching means. A search is performed, and the search result is held in the table content information holding means. Then, the cell data changing means performs a data changing process on the table content information held in the table content information holding means, that is, a specific cell in the table.

Further, the cell information management means is configured to allow the table content information searching means to hold the table data from the document data holding means for holding the document data having one or more table content information indicating a table composed of at least a plurality of cells. The table content information indicating the specific table held in the information search condition holding means is searched for table content information that matches the table content information search condition, and the search result is held in the table content information holding means. ,
Also, the table information information holding means stores cell information that is held by the cell information search means and that meets cell information search conditions held in the cell information search condition holding means for searching cell information about cells to change data. I'm trying to search from. Then, the cell data changing unit changes the cell data included in the cell information searched by the cell information searching unit to the data held in the cell data holding unit.

Further, in the data processing apparatus of the present invention, the table content information holding means holds the ruled line information forming the table composed of a plurality of cells and the information about the cells as the table content information, and the cell data group holding means. Holds a new data group described as data of each of a plurality of cells, and the number of cells corresponding to the data group is more than the number of cells in the existing table content information by the table content information expansion unit. When the number is large, the existing table content information is expanded so as to correspond to the data group, so that the table is expanded according to the amount of cell data, so that the desired table is surely created. Can be changed.

The table content information expansion means determines that the number of cells corresponding to the data group is larger than the number of cells in the existing table content information and that new table content information needs to be added. It is necessary to add new table content information by the information addition determination means, the template management means for holding and managing the template referenced when generating the table content information to be added, and the cell information addition determination means. When it is determined, new table content information is generated based on the template so as to correspond to the data group, and the new table content information is stored in the table content information holding unit. Since it has a cell information addition processing means for adding information to the information, the existing table will be expanded based on the template so that the cell data overflowing from the existing table can also be taken in. , Thus it can be reliably changed to a desired table.

Further, the template managing means holds template condition setting means set as conditions for determining ruled line information and information regarding cells to be a template, and ruled line information matching the template conditions and The table content information holding means is searched for the information about the cell, and the model holding means for holding the ruled line information and the cell information searched by the model searching means as a model.

Further, in the data processing device of the present invention, the cell information holding means includes at least the content part information which is the data of the cell and the logical object information for one cell of the plurality of cells forming the table. Holds cell information constituted by having logical structure information indicating a logical configuration of the cell and cell attribute information indicating a style of the entire cell, and the cell information managing means accesses and manages the cell information. Therefore, the cell information can be referred to or updated.

The cell information management means holds cell data holding means for holding new data described as data of one cell, and contents in the cell information in the cell information holding means based on the new data. Cell data changing means for changing the section information may be further provided, and in this case, the contents of the cell can be changed to desired data.

In addition to the cell data holding means and the cell data changing means, the cell information managing means refers to the logical structure information in the cell information to judge the content system of the cell, and the cell content system judging means. And the content system of the cell determined by the cell content system determining means is different from the content system of the new data, the content system of the cell is changed to the content system of the new data. A changing unit may be further provided. In this case, for example, the content system of the image is changed to the content system of characters (text), and the image data as the cell data is changed to the text data. be able to.

In addition to the cell data holding means and the cell data changing means, the cell information managing means updates the logical structure information of the one cell according to the change processing result by the cell data changing means. May be further provided, and in this case, the logical structure can be deleted or added according to the content of the changed cell data.

Further, when the logical structure information of one cell includes a plurality of content part information, the logical structure updating means deletes the logical structure of the paragraph including the content part information whose data is not changed. Since the cell logical structure deleting means is further provided, the logical structure is deleted so as to fit the data as the value of the cell, that is, the paragraph in the content part.

The logical structure updating means stores additional information holding means for holding information including a logical structure to be added and position information indicating a position to add the logical structure, and contents held in the additional information holding means. On the basis of the above, since the cell logical structure adding means for adding a new logical structure to the logical structure information is further provided, even when a new paragraph is added in addition to the existing paragraph in the cell, , The logical structure of the paragraph is added to fit its content.

Further, the cell information management means is provided with division information for dividing the new data described by the cell data holding means as data for one cell into a plurality of the new data, and the division information. The cell data is retained as cell data configured with segmented data that is data segmented by, and the cell data segmentation unit extracts the segmented cell data in the retrieval order determined according to the segmentation information, The data is taken out and held in the divided data holding means in order, and the cell content portion information designating means is held in the cell information holding means together with the arrangement of the plurality of divided data held in the divided data holding means. In the cell logical structure information, according to a preset rule that associates with the arrangement of the content part information that appears in the logical order, the plurality of divided cell data Specifies the content portion information corresponding to the data,
The cell content part information holding means holds the content part information, and the divided cell data changing means stores the value of the content part attribute information representing the content information of the held content part information in the divided data holding means. You may make it change to the held content.

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The first to sixth embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, a first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 14.

FIG. 1 shows a first data processing apparatus according to the present invention.
Is a functional block diagram of the embodiment of FIG. In the figure, the data processing device holds and manages cell information (one or more cell information) for identifying cells (one or more cells) to change the data in the table. Means 110, cell data group holding means 120 for holding new data (one or more data) described as cell data in the table, and cell information managed by the cell information group management means 110. The cell data group changing unit 130 is configured to change the content of the corresponding cell based on the data of the cell corresponding to the cell information in the content stored in the cell data group holding unit 120.

FIG. 2 is a more detailed functional block diagram of the apparatus of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1. This functional block diagram is the same as the document file in the configuration of the functional block diagram shown in FIG. Holding means 211, document file designating means 212, document data reading / writing means 213, content information file holding means 221, content information file designating means 22
2, a cell data group reading unit 223, a table content information search condition input unit 231, a table content information search condition reading unit 232, a cell information group search condition input unit 241, and a cell information group search condition reading unit 242 are added. ing. In the figure, the same reference numerals are given to parts that perform the same functions as the components shown in FIG.

The document file holding means 211 holds document data including one or a plurality of tables as a document file according to a preset format (file format). This document file holding unit 211 stores one or a plurality of document files.

In this embodiment, the data structure of one document data is, as shown in FIG. 3, at least document data identification information 310 for identifying the document data, document attribute information 320, and document appearance information. 330 and logical structure information 340. The document data identification information 310 is a name or identifier of document data for identifying the document data. The document attribute information 320 is information relating to the entire document and includes, for example, the number of pages, the document title, the author, the date, the version of the document format, and the identification information of the product that created the document. Document format information 3
Reference numeral 30 is information about the format of the document, such as page size (for example, A4, A3 size, etc.), page orientation (vertical direction, horizontal direction), vertical and horizontal margins, the number of lines of characters on one page, and 1 For example, the number of characters in a line. The document appearance information 330 may include paragraphs in the text, headings, and document appearance (for example, font type and size, color, line spacing, etc.). The logical structure information 340 is at least
It is configured to include one or more pieces of logical object information 341 forming a logical structure and one or more pieces of content section information 342 representing the content of a document.

As shown in FIG. 4, the logical object information 341 has logical object identifier information 341A for identifying a logical object and logical object attribute information 341B. The logical objects include three types of logical objects defined by the above-mentioned international standard ODA: a specific logical root, a specific composite logical object, and a specific basic logical object.

As shown in FIG. 5, the content section information 342 is content section identifier information 342A for identifying the content section.
And content section attribute information 342B. The content part information 342 includes 2 of a character content part and a table content part.
Contains one type of content section. The attribute information of the table content portion is a set of attributes that represent ruled lines and cells for expressing a table.

The logical structure information 320 shown in FIG.
A logical hierarchical structure may be expressed by the logical object information 341 and the content part information 342. An example of the hierarchical structure is shown in FIG.

In FIG. 6, 600, 610, 620,
630, 640, 650 and 660 are logical object information, and in particular, 600 is a specific logical root, and 61
0 and 640 are specific compound logical objects, and 62
0, 630, 650 and 660 are specific basic logical objects. Also 620A, 630A, 650A and 6
60A is a content part.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, when expressing the information of the entire table, the content portion 650 of the table is used.
The logical structure information is also given to the subordinate of A. This is to represent the individual cells of the table.

For example, there are 16 cells that make up a table,
When these contents are character contents, as shown in FIG. 6, 16 specific complex logical objects 671A to 676A and 681A to 686 are provided under the contents portion 650A of the table.
A, 691A to 694A, 18 specific basic logical objects 671B to 676B, 681B to 686B, 691
B to 694B are connected to form a logical structure, and character content parts 671C to 676C, 681C to 686C, and 691C are further subordinated to the specific basic logical objects.
~ 694C are connected.

The logical structure information of one paragraph in the cell is composed of a specific basic logical object and a character content part connected to the lower part of the specific basic logical object. In the case of a plurality of paragraphs, the logical structure information in which the character content part is added to the lower part of the specific basic logical object is connected to the lower part of the specific composite logical object by the number of paragraphs. Such a structure in which the character content part is subordinate to the table content part is called a nested structure of the content part. As for the nested structure, [Murata, Koichi Hayashi, Toshiya Isobe,
"Expansion of Structured Document System (ODA): Nested Conten
"The IPSJ 44th (first 1992) national convention 4C-12] is known.

An example in which the document file as described above is displayed as a document on a display device by using an editing function such as a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor having a graphical user interface (GUI) FIG. 7 shows a diagram. In FIG. 7, 700 is a document, 710 is a heading, 720 is a paragraph,
Reference numeral 730 indicates table content information, and 740 indicates a table frame heading.

The heading 710 corresponds to the specific basic logical object 620 shown in FIG. 6, and the paragraph 720 is shown in FIG.
Corresponding to the specific basic logical object 630 shown in FIG. 6, the table content information 730 corresponds to the logical structure information including the nested structure below the content portion 650A of the table shown in FIG. 6, and the table frame heading 740 is shown in FIG. Specific basic logic object 66
Corresponds to 0. The table is represented by the logical structure information composed of the table contents part 650A and the nested structure of the cells thereunder. Hereinafter, this is defined as table content information.

Now, with reference to FIG. 2 again,
The document file designating means 212 designates the name of the document file held in the document file holding means 211. In this embodiment, the name of the document file is specified as an argument of the command. Of course, it may be specified using a graphical user interface (GUI).

The document data read / write means 213 changes from the document file holding means 211 to the document file designating means 21.
The document file corresponding to the file name designated by 2 is read and passed to the cell information group management means 110.
The document file read from the cell information group management unit 110 is output to the document file holding unit 211.

The content information file holding means 221 stores data (hereinafter referred to as cell data) as the value of the cell of the generated table in the content information file. The format stored in this content information file is a matrix having a character string as an element, and this matrix is defined as a character string matrix in this embodiment. One character string corresponds to one cell data. One line is separated by a line delimiter. The character string that is the element of the character string matrix is either at the beginning of the file, surrounded by two line delimiters, or surrounded by line delimiters and column delimiters. Also, the line delimiter is a new line character,
The ASCII character code is "0A" in hexadecimal. The column delimiter is "," (comma)
And the ASCII character code is "2" in hexadecimal.
C ”. It should be noted that one row does not have to include a single character string, and the number of character strings does not have to be the same in all rows. Characters can also be specified with a preset command (eg -newcol).

Next, the format of the character string matrix of the content information file is shown below. Here, BNF (Backus Normal Form)
Or, define the file format by the Backus Naur Form) description. Enclose non-terminal symbols in <,>. + Means repeat one or more times. * Indicates 0 or more times of repetition. <String matrix> :: = <row> + <row> :: = <string>{<columndelimiter><string>} * <line delimiter> | <line delimiter><string>: : = <Character> * <character> :: = {", ASCII excluding carriage return and line feed character", JIS-X0208, JIS-X0201} <Column delimiter> ::: "," (ASCII character code x2C) < Line delimiter> :: = NL (new line character, ASCII character code X0A) The maximum number of columns in a character string matrix is 128 columns. The maximum size of one character string in the character string matrix is 40
It is 96 bytes.

Here, an example of the content information file is shown below. % cat data1.lts Argoss, 7,550,3850 J Star, 4,250,1000 Printer, 6,200,1200 Server, 6,300,1500 In the above example,% is the command interpreter prompt of the general operating system UNIX and cat is the file This is a command for outputting the contents to the screen, data1.lts is the name of the file, and the four lines from the first line to the fourth line are the character string matrix displayed on the display screen. Each character string in each row of this character string matrix represents one cell data. For example, 1
In the row, for example, “Argoss” and “7” mean cell data, respectively. As described above, one character string corresponds to one cell data, in other words, the character string matrix of the content information file that corresponds to the cell data is a character string. Note that it is not essential to hold cell data in this format only.

The content information file designation means 222 designates the file name of the content information file.

The cell data group reading means 223 reads the content information file corresponding to the file name designated by the content information file designation means 222 from the content information file holding means 221, and the column delimiter and the row delimiter from this file. Select format information such as characters,
Cell data group holding means 12 using a character string as cell data
Store in 0. Here, a simple lexical analysis and syntactic analysis method, which is a known technique, is used to recognize the format information.

The table content information search condition input means 231 is for inputting a search condition specified by a user or a program for specifying a table in a document. The search conditions include, for example, (1) checking from the beginning of the document,
The condition for the table to be the frame of the first text. Also, (2) a preset option command (for example, -tblname table
name) to display the table contents information in the table frame name (for example, table
The condition to make a table with name). and so on. In this embodiment, the default value is adopted when the search condition is not specified.

Table contents information search condition reading means 232
Reads the search condition input by the table content information search condition input unit 231 and passes it to the cell information group management unit 110.

The cell information group search condition input means 241 is for inputting a search condition (hereinafter referred to as a cell information group search condition) designated by a user or a program to specify a cell whose table data is to be changed. Is. In other words, the cell information group search condition is for specifying the flow-in area, and may be specified for a plurality of cells or for one cell.

The flow-in area is a specific area of the specified table into which the character string matrix is flowed. A specific area of a table is a group of a plurality of adjacent cells.
A ruled line that surrounds a group of cells is an area surrounded by four sides, that is, upper, lower, left, and right sides. In the pouring area, all ruled lines must be grid-like like a grid. That is, the horizontal ruled line must be one ruled line whose starting point is the leftmost vertical ruled line of the pouring area and whose ending point is the rightmost vertical ruled line. Even if the ruled lines appear to be non-grid when using an editor, they must be gridded by transparent ruled lines (this is the ruled lines that are not actually output but are stored as internal data). The number of rows and the number of columns can be specified in the flow-in area composed of a plurality of cells from the shape of the ruled line. The contents of cells in the flow-in area may be contents such as figures and images other than the character contents.

There are the following three methods of designating the flow-in area (search condition).

(1) A character string (for example, character string @>,
Write @ <) and specify the flow area. That is, as shown in FIG. 8, the flow-in area is designated by writing the character strings @> and @ <in the cell at the upper left corner and the cell at the lower right corner of the rectangle, respectively. The character strings @> and @ <are alphanumeric characters. Even if the flow-in area is designated in this way, unless the ruled lines of the specified area are grid-like, the flow-in area does not hold, so the character string matrix is not flowed in.

(2) By using a preset option command (for example, -lu, rb), the line number and the cell number of the cell at the upper left corner and the cell at the lower right corner are designated to specify the flow area. This is a method of specifying on the command line using the option command -lu, rb.

(3) Designation by Default This is a method of designating by default when neither of the above (1) and (2) is designated.
Its default is the entire table. However, if the table heading is set, the part excluding the heading is specified.

When the character string matrix is flowed into the flow-in area thus set, each row of the character string matrix is flowed from the left in association with the column of the flow-in area. Specifically, first, the cells of the flow area corresponding to the character strings that are the elements of the character string matrix are examined, and then,
When the cell content system is the character content system, the cell corresponding to the character string is overwritten with the character string. Here, overwriting means that, when the cell has character content information, the character content information and the character attribute are deleted and the character string of the character string matrix is inserted. When the content of the cell is other than the character content system, the cell is converted into the cell of the character content system and the character string is written in the cell. Also,,
When there is no flow data due to (comma continuous designation), the contents of the corresponding flow cells are not changed.

Further, various pouring processes can be executed by using preset option commands described below. (A) By using the option command -reserve, it is possible to save cells other than the character content system without replacing them with the cells of the character content system. (B) By using the option command -colseq, the order of the columns of the character string matrix to be flowed can be changed to an arbitrary one instead of left justification. (C) A character string can be poured into one cell by using the option command -cell.

Now, referring again to FIG. 2, the cell information group search condition reading means 242 reads the search condition input by the cell information group search condition input means 241.
This is passed to the cell information group management means 110.

In the cell information group management means 110, the document data holding means 111 is the document data reading / writing means 21.
One or a plurality of document files, that is, document data, passed from No. 3 are held. Note that the document data does not need to be directly held in the document data holding unit 111, for example, the document data may be held in another holding unit, and a pointer indicating the document data may be held in the document data holding unit 111. When processing the document data, the corresponding document data in the other holding means may be processed based on the pointer in the document data holding means 111.

The table contents information search condition holding means 112 has
The condition used when searching the table content information, that is, the table content search condition for specifying the table is held. Two examples of the search condition are given below.

(A) The condition that the document is checked from the beginning and the table content information that appears first is searched. This means that, in the tree structure of the logical structure information, the table that first appears by examining the tree in the depth priority order is designated as the target. The first thing that appears is the table of the text. Note that the first one to be found may be the table in the graphic frame.
Of course, the n-th found table may be used.

(B) A condition for searching the table content information corresponding to the identification information of the logical object information. This means that for the logical object information of the table frame, the table indicating the name of the table frame is conditionally specified to be the target. The name of the table frame is represented by the attribute information.

The table content information search means 113 refers to the table content information search condition held in the table content information search condition holding means 112, and stores the table content information matching this search condition in the document data holding means 111. Search from the stored document data. When the table content information matching the search condition is found, a pointer to the table content information is passed to the table content information holding unit 114.

Any editing process may be applied to the table contents and the out-of-frame text in the table contents information. For example, any ruled line may be drawn, and any ruled line attribute may be set. Also, paragraph attributes, cell attributes, character contents, etc. may be set in each cell. A preset option command (eg -tbl
name table-name) can be used to make the table content information have a frame name (for example, table-name).

The table content information holding means 114 holds the pointer passed from the table content information searching means 113.

The cell information group search condition holding means 115 holds the cell information group search condition (that is, search information for searching one or more cell information) passed from the cell information group search condition reading means 242. .

The cell information group searching means 116 uses the table contents information held in the table contents information holding means 114 to find the cells (that is, the cells that meet the cell information searching conditions held in the cell information group searching conditions holding means 115). One or a plurality of cells) are searched, and the identification number of this cell is passed to the cell information group holding means 117. The cell identification number is unique within a particular table.

The cell information group holding means 117 holds the cell identification number passed from the cell information group searching means 116.

The cell data group changing means 130 includes a cell data group held in the cell data group holding means 120,
Correspondence is made with the cell based on the identification number held in the cell information group holding means 117, and the cell data group is overwritten on the cell based on the identification number. Next, the flow of the entire processing of the first embodiment will be described with reference to the main routine (flow chart) shown in FIG.

The apparatus of the present embodiment waits for a processing start instruction (step 910), and upon receiving the processing start instruction, the document data reading / writing means 213 causes the document file holding means 211.
Document data is read from the document data holding means 111
The cell data group reading means 223 reads the cell data group from the content information file holding means 221 and stores it in the cell data group holding means 120, and the table content portion search condition reading means 232 reads the table content information search condition. The table content information search condition input by the input unit 231 is stored in the table content information search condition holding unit 112, and the cell information group search condition reading unit 242 is stored in the cell information group search condition input unit 24.
The cell information group search condition input by 1 is stored in the cell information group search condition holding means 115 (step 920).

When the data for changing the table data is held in each holding means in this way, a process for specifying the table for which the data is to be changed and the area (for example, row or cell) of the table to be changed is executed. To be done.

That is, the table content information searching means 113 is
With respect to the document data held in the document data holding means 111, a table content portion that matches the table content information search condition held in the table content information search condition holding means 112 is searched, and if found, the document data is searched. Holding means 1
The pointer to the table contents section held in 11 is passed to the table contents information holding means 114 (step 930). When searching for the table contents part, the document contents held in the document data holding means 111 are searched for the table contents part while tracing the logical structure that can be regarded as a tree structure in the depth priority order. The table content information holding unit 114 holds the passed pointer. The table content portion pointed to by the pointer means the table whose data is to be changed.

On the other hand, the cell information group searching means 116, based on the cell information group searching condition held in the cell information group searching condition holding means 115 and the pointer held in the table content information holding means 114, The pointer of the cell for updating the data is searched for in the table content portion pointed to by the pointer, and if found, the result is passed to the cell information group holding means 117 (step 940). The cell information group holding unit 117 holds the passed pointer. The cell pointed to by the pointer means an area for changing data.

When the table content part and the cell are specified in this way, the cell data group changing means 130 holds the cell data group held in the cell data group holding means 120 and the cell information group holding means 117. The data in the table cell is changed based on the pointer that has been set (step 950).
That is, the data of the cell pointed to by the pointer held in the cell information group holding means 117 in the document data holding means 111 is updated based on the cell data group held in the cell data group holding means 120. Therefore, after the change processing by the cell data group changing means 130 is completed, the data in the table content portion held in the document data holding means 111 is the latest data.

Finally, the document data read / write means 213
Outputs the document data which is the processing result held in the document data holding means 111 (step 960).

Next, the search processing of the table content portion by the table content information searching means 113 will be described with reference to the subroutine shown in FIG.

The table content information searching means 113 makes initial settings (step 1010). That is, the table content information search condition held in the table content information search condition holding unit 112 is read, and the table content portion that meets this search condition is read from the document data held in the document data holding unit 111. Identify. Here, the table content information condition is set to the name of the frame with the table. Here, if the document data shown in FIG. 6 is held in the document data holding unit 111 and the name of the frame of the table in the document data matches the name of the frame as the table content information search condition, it is shown in FIG. The pointer to the logical object of the document data to be processed is the logical root.

Next, the pointers of the logical objects are traced in the depth priority order, and it is determined whether or not all logical objects have been checked (step 102).
0).

If there is an unchecked item, it is checked whether the logical object type is the complex object and the subtype is the frame of the body among the attributes of the logical object (step 1030).

If YES in step 1030, the name of the frame among the attributes of the logical object is checked, and this is
It is checked whether it is the same as the one set in the table contents information search condition (step 1040). In the example shown in FIG. 6, the frame is being checked.

If YES in step 1040, for example, if the name of the frame matches the search condition in the example shown in FIG. 6, in the content part pointed by the pointer of the logical object, the first content part found is the table content. It is checked whether it is a copy (step 1050).

If YES in step 1050, for example, in the case of the table contents part in the example shown in FIG. 6, the pointer to the table contents part held in the document data holding means 111 is used as a return value (step 1060). ), Return to the main routine. A pointer to the table contents section as a return value is held in the table contents information holding unit 114.

Steps 1030, 1040, 105
In the case of "NO" in 0, the process returns to step 1020 and the steps after this step are repeated. That is, the process of tracing the pointers of the logical objects in the depth-first order is repeated until the table content part that matches the search condition is found. If all the logical objects are checked in step 1020, the table content information search condition is satisfied. Since it means that the table contents part does not exist, the process returns to the main routine.

Next, the cell information group searching process by the cell information group searching means 116 will be described with reference to the subroutine shown in FIG.

The cell information group searching means 116 performs initial setting (step 1110). That is, the pointer to the table content portion is read from the table content information holding unit 114, and the cell information group search condition is read from the cell information group search condition holding unit 115. As the cell information group search condition, an upper left row number and a column number and a lower right row number and a column number are designated in order to designate a rectangular area of a table formed by a plurality of cells.

Next, based on the row numbers and column numbers at the upper left and lower right as cell information group search conditions, in the table contents section pointed to by the pointer to the table contents section, by the respective row numbers and column numbers It is checked whether the ruled line of the table surrounded by the determined cells is a grid ruled line (step 1120).

If YES in step 1120, the pointers to all the cells surrounded by the designated grid-like ruled lines are checked, and this pointer is used as a return value (step 113
0), return to the main routine. The pointer as a return value (in this example, a pointer column) is held in the cell information group holding means 117.

If NO in step 1120, the process returns to the main routine.

Next, the cell data group changing process by the cell data group changing means 120 will be described with reference to the subroutine shown in FIG.

The cell data group changing means 120 sequentially takes out one by one from the first pointer out of the pointer row held in the cell information group holding means 117 (step 1210), and the taken-out one The logical structure of the cell frame corresponding to the pointer is extracted (step 12)
20). The type indicated by the logical object attribute of the logical object forming the logical structure of this cell frame is a frame.

Next, the logical structure of the cell frame is traced, and it is checked whether or not the content part of the frame is the character content type (step 1
230), in the case of the character content type, if the existing character content is present in the content part, the content is deleted, and then the data of the corresponding cell is taken out from the cell data holding means 120 to obtain the content. Part (step 12)
40). If there is no corresponding data, it is assumed that a null character has been read.

If it is not the character content type in step 1230, the cell frame is replaced with the cell frame of the character content (step 1250) and then the process proceeds to step 1240.

By the way, after finishing step 1240, it is judged whether or not all the pointers held in the cell information group holding means 117 have been processed (step 1
260), if there is any unprocessed one, the process returns to the above step 1210 to execute the processes after this step, while if all pointers have been processed, the process returns to the main routine. At this time, after the cell data group changing unit 130 completes the cell data group changing process, the document data held in the document data holding 110 is the latest document data.

Next, the modification of cell data will be described with a specific example.

Here, it is assumed that there are the following preconditions. (1) It is assumed that the screen image corresponding to the document data in the document file Monthly Sales Data1.doc has the content shown in FIG. In FIG. 13, 1300 indicates a document, 1310 indicates a table, and 1320 indicates a frame heading of the table.

(2) The format of the cell data file data1.lts held in the cell data group holding means 120 is as follows. % cat data1.lts Argoss, 7,550,3850 J Star, 4,250,1000 Printer, 6,200,1200 Server, 6,300,1500 (3) I would like to change the data in the table in the example shown in FIG. 13 to the cell data in (2) above. (4) I would like to change the frame heading of the table to "Sales results for September for the West Sales Department."

The setting method in such a case may be as follows. (1) Setting the area (flow area) you want to change. Set the character string. Alternatively, specify it on the command line. (2) Describe the command tupdate. This command
tupdate will be described later. % tupdate -cont data1.lts -cap “West Sales Department September sales record” \ Monthly Sales Data1.doc> result1.doc where result1.doc is the output document file. The description content of the command tupdate means that the processes satisfying the above-mentioned prerequisites (2) and (3) are executed. (3) When the contents of (1) and (2) above are set, the processing as described in the processing procedure of FIGS. 9 to 12 is executed, and as a result, the output document file result1.doc
Will be obtained. FIG. 14 shows a screen image corresponding to the document of this document file. In the example shown in FIG. 14, the table 1310 (see FIG. 13) is changed to 1410, and the frame heading 1320 (see FIG. 13) in the table is changed to a frame heading 1420.

Next, FIG. 15 shows a hardware configuration for realizing the apparatus of the embodiment shown in FIG.

In FIG. 15, an input device 1510, a display device 1520, an external storage device 1530, a main memory 154.
0, the central processing unit (CPU) 1550 is connected via a bus 1560.

The input device 1510 is composed of a keyboard and a mouse, and is for designating the above-mentioned document data, cell data group, table contents information search condition and cell information group search condition. In this embodiment, when specifying each data and each search condition, the command procedure is described.

The display device 1520 displays the logical structure of the document including the table, the document contents, and the command procedure.

The external storage device 1530 stores a document file, a content information file (that is, a cell data file), a command interpreter for executing the above command procedure, and various data. The command procedure is also stored if necessary.

The main memory 1540 has an external storage device 15
The document file loaded from 30, the content information file, the command interpreter, various data, and the command procedure and various data input by the input device 1510 are stored. Document data, cell data group,
The table content information, the cell information group search condition, and the table content information search condition are stored. The main memory 1540 has a CPU 15
A work area is provided for the 50 to perform operations on data.

The CPU 1550 controls the above-mentioned units and loads the command interpreter from the external storage device 1530 into the main memory 1540 to execute the command interpreter.
Execute the process for the command procedure. That is, the process of changing the cell data of the table to new cell data is executed.

The apparatus configured as described above can be specifically realized by, for example, a workstation or a computer.

Next, the correspondence relationship between the components of the functional block diagram shown in FIG. 2 and the components of the block diagram shown in FIG. 15 will be described.

The holding means 211 and 221 shown in FIG. 2 are the external storage device 1530 and the main memory 154 shown in FIG.
0, corresponding to the holding means 111, 112, 1 shown in FIG.
Reference numerals 14, 115, 117 and 120 correspond to the main memory 1540 shown in FIG. 15, and the table content information searching means 113, the cell information group searching means 116, the cell data group changing means 120 and the document data reading / writing means shown in FIG. 213, cell data group reading means 223, table content information search condition reading means 232, and cell information group search condition reading means 242 are CPU 1550 (actually CPU 155 shown in FIG.
0 is realized by executing a program for performing each function), and the designating means 212 and 222 shown in FIG. 2 correspond to the input device 12 shown in FIG.
2, corresponding to the input means 231 and 241 shown in FIG. 2 are the CPU 1550 (actually the CPU 155 shown in FIG. 15).
0 is realized by executing a program for performing each function). Each of the designation means may be designated by an application program (not shown).

As described above, according to the first embodiment, the data of the cells (that is, the cells whose data should be changed) that meet the table content information search condition in the table included in the document are newly updated. Since the data is changed to the cell data, it is possible to change the data only in some cells of the table in the document and reuse the other document contents other than that.

The cell information group managing means 110 has the function of the cell information managing means shown in claim 1, and the cell data group holding means 120 has the function of the cell data holding means shown in claim 1. The changing means 130 has the function of the cell data changing means in claim 1, the cell information group search condition holding means 115 has the function of the cell information search condition holding means shown in claim 3, and the cell information group searching means 116 has the claim. Each has the function of the cell information search means shown by 3.

Next, the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 16 is a functional block diagram showing the second embodiment of the data processing apparatus according to the present invention.

In the figure, the data processing apparatus includes a cell information group management means 1610 for holding and managing ruled line information forming a table and information about cells as cell information, and a cell data group holding a data group of a table cell. Holding means 1620
And when the number of cells corresponding to the data group of the cell is larger than the number of cells in the cell information, a cell information expansion unit 1630 for expanding the cell information so as to correspond to the data group of the cell. Is configured. The cell information group management means 1610 has the same function as the cell information group management means 110 shown in FIG. 1, and the cell data group holding means 1620 is the same as the cell data group holding means 120 shown in FIG. It has a function. The cell information expansion unit 1630 checks the cell information in the cell information group management unit 110 and the cell data group in the cell data group holding unit 120, and acquires the table content information so that all the cell data can be taken into the table. Determine if it should be added. As a result of this determination, if the cell information group management means 110 is added,
The new cell information is added to the cell information inside.

The cell information to be added may be taken in from any place or held.
For example, a table of the same table may be imported, or a table of another document may be read. Further, the table content information generated and retained from the template table content information may be used as needed.

FIG. 17 is a more detailed functional block diagram of the device shown in FIG.

In the figure, the document file holding means 21
1, document file designation means 212, document data read / write means 213, content information file holding means 221, content information file designation means, cell data group reading means 22
3, the table content information search condition 231, the table content information search condition reading 232, the cell information group search condition input means 241, and the cell information group search condition reading means 242 are the same in the apparatus of the first embodiment shown in FIG. It has the same function as that of the component denoted by the reference numeral.

Each constituent element in the cell information group managing means 1610 has the same function as the constituent element of the cell information group managing means 110 of the apparatus of the first embodiment shown in FIG. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the component which has a similar function.

The cell data group holding means 1620 is the cell data group holding means 120 of the apparatus of the first embodiment shown in FIG.
It has the same function as.

The template condition reading means 1710 reads the template conditions.

The cell information expansion means 1630 has a template management means 1631, a cell information addition determination means 1632, a cell information addition parameter holding means 1633, a cell information addition processing means 1634, and a cell information addition partial table holding means 1635. Has been done.

In the template management means 1631, the template condition holding means 1631A is the template condition reading means 1
The template conditions read by 710 are held.

The template searching means 1631B searches the table content information stored in the table content information storage means 114 for a template matching the template conditions stored in the template condition storage means 1631A, and specifies this template. A pointer for saving to the model holding means 1631C. As the pointer, for example, a model cell identification number may be used. The cell identification number is unique in a particular table. Of course, the pointer may be a name or address other than the cell identification number. In short, anything that can identify the model is acceptable.

The template holding means 1631C holds the sequence of pointers passed from the template searching means 1631B. Therefore, the model can be recognized by referring to the pointer held in the model holding unit 1631C. That is, the information about the cell identified by the pointer pointing to the cell and the ruled line information mean the template. The template includes the following three types.

(A) Attribute of cell in table contents section. This is the attribute name CellAttri and its attribute value. An attribute may be set in the attribute value.

(B) Cell nesting structure and attributes included in the nesting structure. However, the value of the attribute indicating the content information of the character content part is not a template.

(C) Information on ruled lines surrounding cells. This is a horizontal ruled line and a vertical ruled line for forming each cell of a row as a template. Since rows are generated based on the template, any one of the horizontal ruled lines above and below the cell is adopted as the template. Here, the lower horizontal ruled line is adopted as a model unless otherwise specified.

The cell information addition judging means 1632 has the cell information held in the cell information group holding means 117 of the cell information group managing means 1610 and the cell data group holding means 162.
The cell data group held at 0 is checked to obtain the cell data amount that does not correspond to the cell of the cell information. If the cell information corresponding to the cell data does not exist, it is determined that the cell information corresponding to the overflowed cell data is added.

For example, for cell information for n rows and m columns,
When there is cell data of (n + x) rows (m + y) columns, the cell data is available for x rows (m + y) columns and n rows and y columns, so it is determined to add cell information corresponding thereto.

Cell information addition parameter holding means 1633
Holds the parameters referred to by the cell information addition processing means 1634. This parameter may hold the judgment result by the cell information addition judging means 1632, or may be a value designated by the user.

The cell information addition processing means 1634 adds necessary cell information to the cell information in the cell information group management means 1610. At this time, information on the template in the template holding means 1631C of the template management means 1631 for holding and managing the template of the cell information necessary for addition, and the parameter (the number of rows) held in the cell information addition parameter holding means 1633 Based on, the necessary cell information, that is, a new partial table (hereinafter referred to as a partial table) is generated, and this new partial table is added to the existing table. There are two methods for generating this partial table as described below.

As a first method, an area corresponding to the number of parameter rows, for example, n rows, is secured, and then (n-
1) Draw horizontal ruled lines for the number of rows to finally generate a partial table of n rows. As a second method, a template line is repeatedly generated, and finally, the number-of-rows part, which is a parameter, for example, the n-row part is generated. In these methods, the attributes of individual cells that the template has and the attributes that express the characteristics of ruled lines are
It is inherited by the newly created line. In the generation of such a partial table, the newly generated row is added (extended) so as to be connected immediately below the template row. Therefore, the new partial table is extended to the table content information of the table held in the document data holding unit 111, and the column of the pointer to this partial table is the cell information addition partial table holding unit 163.
Held at 5.

The cell data group inserting means 1720 reads the cell data from the cell data group holding means 1620, and then the partial table (that is, document data) pointed to by the pointer held in the cell information addition partial table holding means 1635. The cell data read from the cell data group holding means 1620 is poured into the partial table held in the holding means 111).

Here, the casting region and the template will be described with reference to FIG. The pouring area is the same as that of the first embodiment described with reference to FIG.
Unless otherwise specified, the lowermost row 1800 is the template for the template. This template is repeated to generate a new line.

Using a preset option command (for example, -tmprow) for designating the template,
A template can also be designated as shown in FIG.

Next, regarding the processing operation of the second embodiment,
This will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, the same processing as steps 910 to 940 of the flowchart shown in FIG. 9 described in the first embodiment is performed (steps 2010 to 2040), that is, various data for changing the data in the table. Data is read and stored, a table to be changed and a change area to be changed are determined.

Therefore, the document data holding means 111 is
The document data of the document including the table to be changed is held, and the table content information holding unit 114 holds a pointer to the table content information matching the search condition in the document data holding unit 111. The cell information group holding unit 117 holds a column of pointers to cells that match the search condition, and the cell data group holding unit 1620 holds a cell data group (character string matrix) to be changed. . In the second embodiment, at the time of reading and storing various data in step 2020, the template condition holding means 1631A reads “the lowest row of the flow area is included, and the left and right cells of the row are left and right. The default template condition "that is a row of columns" is held by the template condition reading means 1710.

When the table and area to be changed are determined in this way, the cell information addition judging means 1632 determines the number of rows of the table content information pointed to by the pointer held in the cell information group holding means 117. And cell data holding means 1
Check the number of rows of the cell data group held in 620,
It is determined whether the number of rows of the cell data group is larger than the number of rows of the table content information (step 2050).

In step 2050, when the number of rows of the cell data group is larger, the entire cell data group cannot be poured into the table content information, so that the existing table content information is expanded. Therefore, the cell information addition determining means 1632 sets the value of “the number of rows of the cell data group−the number of rows of the table content information” to the cell information addition parameter holding means 16
33, and at the same time, the template searching means 1631B is instructed to search for the template. By using the default template, a row having the same attributes as the existing table can be generated, so that the existing table and the newly generated table can be unified.

In the template searching means 1631B, the template matching the template conditions held in the template condition holding means 1631A is stored in the document data holding means 111, which is pointed to by the pointer held in the table content information holding means 114. The stored contents are searched from the table content information in the document data, and the column of pointers to the cells of the template which is the search result is held in the template holding means 1631C (step 2060). Here, the template is the table content information that represents the most significant row in the table content information.

Cell information addition parameter holding means 1
When the parameter (that is, the number of rows) is held in 633 and the template is held in the template holding unit 1631C, the cell information adding processing unit 1634 creates a partial table to be added, that is, a partial table based on the information. The generated partial table is added immediately below the template table content information, and the column of the pointer designating the partial table (each cell) is held in the cell information addition partial table holding means 16135 (step 207).
0).

Then, the cell data group inserting means 1720
The table content information held by the cell information group holding means 117 and pointed to by the pointer, and the table held by the cell information additional partial table holding means 1635 and pointed by the pointer The cell data group held in the cell data group holding means 1620 is inserted into the content information (step 2080). That is, the table content information pointed to by the pointer held in the cell information group holding means 117 of the document data holding means 111 and the cell information addition partial table holding means 1635 is
Changed to cell data group. Therefore, after the insertion processing by the cell data group insertion means 1720 is completed,
The table content information held in the document data holding unit 111 is the latest data.

Finally, the document data read / write means 213
Outputs the document data held in the document data holding means 111 (step 2090).

Next, the above-mentioned processing will be described with a specific example.

Here, as shown in FIG. 21A, it is assumed that the document data of the table 2100 having heading rows and four rows and four columns is held in the document data holding means 111, and the table 2100 is searched. If a search condition to be specified is designated, a pointer pointing to the table 2100 on the document data holding means 111 is held in the table content information holding means 114.
Since the search condition for specifying the cell is not specified here, the default flow-in area is adopted, so that the cell information group holding means 117 is shown in FIG.
Each row of columns 211 to 2114 and column 2 shown in (a).
A column of pointers to 16 cells determined by each column of 121 to 2124 is held. Further, the template condition reading means 1631A holds the condition that the last row of the table is the default template as described above.

On the other hand, it is assumed that the cell data group holding means 1620 holds a cell data group of 6 rows and 4 columns as shown in FIG. 21 (b).

Here, as is clear from FIGS. 21A and 21B, the number of rows of the table content information is four, and the number of rows of the cell data group is six. It can be seen that the content information is two lines more. Therefore, the cell information additional parameter holding unit 1633 stores the value “2” as the parameter.
Is retained.

This means that it is necessary to expand the existing table, and therefore the template holding means 163.
1C holds a column of pointers to each cell in the row 2114 as a template.

As a result, the cell information addition processing means 163.
4, the rows for two rows are generated based on the information regarding the cells in the row 2114 and the ruled line information, and the partial tables for the two rows are connected immediately below the row 2114. This state is shown in FIG. In the example of this figure, rows 2115, 21
16 have been added.

The table 2100 shown in FIG. 21C is held in the document data holding means 111. That is, the table 2100 shown in FIG. 21A held in the document data holding unit 111 is expanded by two lines. Further, as shown in FIG. 21C, a column of pointers to 8 cells determined by each row of rows 2115 and 2116 and each column of columns 2121 to 2124 is the cell information addition partial table holding means 1
Will be held at 635.

Then, the cell data group inserting means 1720 inserts the cell data group shown in FIG. 21B into the table shown in FIG. 21C.

At this time, the cells proceed from row 2111 to row 2116, and in each row from column 2121 to column 2124, to the cells obtained, from the first row to the sixth row of the cell data group, and 1st to 4th columns in each row
Cell data obtained by advancing to the column is inserted.

Next, the modification of cell data will be described with reference to a specific example.

Here, it is assumed that there are the following preconditions. (1) When the document file MonthlySalesData1.doc exists, change the cell data. Document file MonthlySal
FIG. 22 shows a screen image when esData1.doc is displayed as a document, for example. Note that in FIG. 22, 2200
Indicates a document, 2210 indicates a table, and 2220 indicates a frame heading of the table. (2) The cell data is stored in the content information file data1.lts. Below is the general operating system UN
The following shows how the contents of the file are displayed on the screen of the display device by the cat command of IX. % cat data11.lts Argoss, 7,550,3850 J Star, 4,250,1000 Printer 1,6,200,1200 Printer 2,6,200,400 Server 1,6,300,1500 Server 2,1,300,300. The cell data is stored in the content information file according to a specific format, that is, a character string matrix. (3) I would like to change the data in the table in the example shown in FIG. 22 to the cell data in (2) above. (4) I want to change the frame heading of the table to "West Sales Department September sales record".

The setting method in such a case may be as follows. (1) Setting the area to be updated (that is, the pouring area). Set the character string. Alternatively, specify it on the command line. (2) Describe the command tupdate. This command
tupdate will be described later. % tupdate -con data11.lts -cap "West Sales Department September sales record" -generate \ MonthlySalesData1.doc> result11.doc where result11.doc is the output document file. The description content of the command tupdate means that the processes satisfying the above-mentioned prerequisites (1) and (2) are executed. (3) When the contents of (1) and (2) above are set, FIG.
The processing described in the processing procedure of 0 is executed, and as a result, the document file result11.doc is obtained.
FIG. 23 shows a screen image in which this document file is displayed as a document on the display device. In FIG. 23, Table 2 above
210 (see FIG. 23) is changed to a table 2310, and the frame heading 2220 (see FIG. 23) of the above table is the table frame heading 23.
It has been changed to 20.

The apparatus of the second embodiment has the same hardware configuration as that of the first embodiment shown in FIG.
The means 111, 112, 114, 115, 117, 1
620, 1631A, 1631C, 1633, 1635
Correspond to the main memory 1540 shown in FIG. 15, and are means 113, 116, 1631B, 1632, 1634, 1
Both 710 and 1720 are the CPU 1550 shown in FIG.
(Actually, the CPU 1550 is realized by executing a program for performing each function). Correspondences between the constituent elements other than the above in the functional block diagram shown in FIG. 17 and the constituent elements shown in FIG. 15 are as described in the first embodiment.

As described above, according to the second embodiment, the number of cells of the new cell data group (character string matrix) (specifically, the number of cells of the existing table (specifically, the number of rows) is calculated. When the number of rows is large, a new row is generated based on the difference value (the number of rows) and the template row, and this generated row is added to the existing table. Further, since the cell data group is inserted in the expanded table, the table is expanded according to the amount of cell data, so that the desired table can be surely changed.

Next, the third embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 24 shows a third embodiment of the data processing device according to the present invention.
Is a functional block diagram of the embodiment of FIG.

In the figure, the data processing apparatus has a cell information group holding means 2410 for holding a cell information group, which is information on cells of a cell group forming a table, and conditions preset from the cell information group. Cell information selecting means 2420 for selecting one cell information that conforms to
It comprises a cell information holding means 2430 for holding one cell information and a cell information management means 2440 for managing the cell information held in the cell information holding means 2430.

The cell information holding means 2430 holds one piece of cell information. That is, as shown in FIG. 25, this cell information is cell attribute information 251 indicating the style of the entire cell.
0 and cell logical structure information 2520. The logical structure information 2520 is the logical object information 2
521 and content part information 2522.

The logical object information 2521 is shown in FIG.
As shown in (1), the logical object identifier information 2521A for identifying the logical object and the logical object attribute information 2521B are included. on the other hand,
As shown in FIG. 27, the content section information 2522 is configured to include content section identifier information 2522A for identifying the content section and content section attribute information 2522B. Therefore,
Content information of cells such as text (character string), image, figure, and table is the content portion attribute information 2 of the content portion information 2522.
It is represented by 522B. Note that the logical structure information 2520
The style is expressed by the logical object information 2521 and the content part attribute information 2522B of the content part information 2522.

In this third embodiment, the logical structure information 25
20 has a tree structure. At this time, the logical object information and the content part information are regarded as a tree-structured node. Logical structure information node (logical object information and content part information)
There is an order to look up. This is the "order of arrival" or "Preo
It is called “rder.” In the above ODA, “sequential log”
It is called “ical order”.

The cell information may be held as a file in the external storage device or in the internal memory (main memory). Alternatively, the cell information may be held in another holding means and read when necessary via a pointer.

There are two types of logical object information, a specific compound object and a specific basic logical object. Depending on the difference in the content information, there are characters, graphics, images,
There are four types of tables. The respective content part information is referred to as character content part information, graphic content part information, image content part information, and table content part information. What defines the format of individual content information is called a content system. For example, what defines the format of character content information is called a character content system.

On the other hand, the cell information group held in the cell information group holding means 2410, that is, the logical structure information of the cell, is the table when the table contents section information expressing the ruled lines of the table is regarded as a tree structure node. It will be located under the node of the content section information. The content part information of the logical structure information of the cell is located below the content part information of the table. Logical structure information including content part information, which is located below certain content part information, is called a nested structure.

FIG. 28 shows an example of a tree structure (logical structure information) when there are 6 cells in the table, and a tree structure (logical structure information) when 3 paragraphs are present in one cell. 29) is shown in FIG.

In FIG. 28, reference numeral 2800 is a table contents portion, and the contents portion 2800 of this table is actually shown in FIG.
It is located under the specific basic logical object 650 in the example of the logical structure information of the first embodiment shown in FIG. A logical structure in which six specific composite logical objects 2810 to 2860 and six specific basic logical objects 2811 to 2861 are connected to the lower part of the content portion 2800 of this table, and further, a character is provided below each of the specific basic logical objects The content parts 2812 to 2862 are connected.

In the example shown in FIG. 29, for example, when the cell corresponding to the specific composite logical object 2810 shown in FIG. 28 has three paragraphs, the logical structure information indicating one cell is expressed. Logical object 2810
Subordinate to three specific basic logical objects 2811A
.About.2811C are connected to each other, and the character content parts 2812A to 2812C are connected to the respective subordinates of the specific basic logical objects.

The logical structure information of one cell is a nested structure located below the table contents part information. Generally, the logical structure of one cell may be a nested structure having a plurality of content part information of a plurality of content systems, and further, the content part information of the cell logical structure information (nested structure) It may be a multiple nesting structure having a nesting structure in. The nested structure may be stacked a plurality of times. For example, under the table contents section information,
It has a nested structure with the content part information of the content system of the figure,
Further, there is a case in which a nested structure having the content part information of the character content system is provided below the content part information of the graphic.

FIG. 30 shows an example of this multiple nesting structure. The example shown in FIG. 30 has a logical structure obtained by changing the logical structure of the specific composite logical object 2810 and below in the logical structure information shown in FIG. 28 to the logical structure of the specific composite logical object 301 and below. Here, the logical structure below the specific compound logical object 3010 represents a multiple nested structure. That is, below the specific compound logical object 3010, the specific basic logical object 30
11 is located below this object, content part information 3012 of the content system of the graphic is located below this object, and the specific basic logic object 301 is further below the content part information 211 of this graphic.
3, 3014 are located, and further below these objects, the content part information 3013A, 3014 of the character content system.
A is located. Here, the specific complex logical object 3010, the specific basic logical object 3011, and the content part information 3012 represent a nested structure having the content part information of the content system of the figure in the table content part information, and the specific basic logic object 3013 and 3014 and content part information 3013A and 3014A represent a nested structure having content part information of the character content system.

Therefore, in the cell information holding means 2430, for example, a specific complex logical object 282 shown in FIG.
Logical structure information corresponding to one cell such as a logical structure of 0 or less, a logical structure of the specific complex logical object 2810 or less shown in FIG. 29, or a logical structure of the specific complex logical object 3010 or less shown in FIG. 30 is held. Will be done.

In this third embodiment, the cell nesting structure may be multiple. Further, in one cell, only the nested structure immediately below the table content part information may have only one content system, and the content part information may be plural.

Further, these cell information (logical object and content part information) can be held as a part of the document file according to the format of the document file in the external storage device.

Here, the cell information group held in the cell information group holding means 130 is converted into a document file in accordance with a preset document file format, and screen images corresponding to the document of this document file are shown in FIGS. It shows in FIG.

31 to 34, "... Omission ...
"..." indicates that such data does not exist, but the data is omitted. For example, in the example shown in FIG. Is present, which means that the predetermined data from the 22nd line to the 35th line is omitted.

In FIGS. 31 to 34, the 20th to 66th lines (see FIG. 31) show the table content section information. The logical structure information (that is, the nested structure) of one cell in the upper left corner of the table is expressed in the 67th line to the 78th line (see FIGS. 31 and 32). In this logical structure information, the 67th line to the 72nd line show an example of the specific complex logical object. The 73rd line and the 74th line, the 75th line and the 76th line, the 77th line and the 78th line, Each represents the structure of a paragraph. This cell indicates that there are three paragraphs. The 73rd line is an example of a specific basic logical object, and the 74th line is an example of character content part information.

The nesting structure of the contents system of the graphic is shown from the 79th line to the 115th line (see FIGS. 32 and 33), and the nesting structure of the contents system of the image is the 116th to 132th lines (see FIG. 33), and
The multiple nesting structure in which the contents of the graphic are the contents of the character is shown in lines 145 to 190 (see FIGS. 33 and 34).

The difference in the type of content system is that the characters, graphics,
In the raster and table, at the beginning of the content part information,
Shown as Char, Geo Raster, Tbl.

The tree structure can be expressed by checking the identifier information of the logical object information and the identifier information of the content part information. The identifier information is represented by a numerical string such as [3 0 0]. As this rule, the rule defined in the above ODA may be adopted.

Therefore, the cell information selecting means 2420 checks the identifier information of each of the logical object information and the contents section information described above from the logical structure information of the cell group in the cell information group holding means 2410, and The logical structure information can be selected.

The cell information shown in FIG. 31 to FIG.
FIG. 35 shows an output example in which a document is output to a display device or a printing device via a document editing device or the like.

In the example shown in FIG. 35, Table 3500
Consists of six cells 3510-3560,
The correspondence between these cells and the above-mentioned logical structure information will be described. The cell 3510 corresponds to the 67th to 78th rows, the cell 3520 corresponds to the 79th to 115th rows, and the cell 35
30 corresponds to the 116th to 132nd lines, and is a cell 3540.
Corresponding to lines 133 to 144 (not shown in this example), cell 3550 corresponds to lines 145 to 190, and cell 3560 corresponds to lines 191 to 198 (in this example, (Not shown).

Therefore, the cell information holding means 130 holds the logical structure information of any one of the above-mentioned six cells 3510 to 3560.

Here, description will be given again with reference to FIG. In the cell information management means 2340, the cell data group holding means 2441 holds the cell data group, that is, the character string matrix as described in the first embodiment. The cell data selection means 2442 is the cell data group (character string matrix).
Cell data that meets the preset conditions from among 1
One of them is selected and held in the cell data holding means 2443.

The cell data changing means 2444 uses the logical order information (sequential logical ord) in the cell logical structure information.
er), the logical object information is searched for, and the value of the attribute of the content part attribute information representing the character string of the cell of the character content part information that is found first is changed to the value held in the cell data holding means 2443. In the document file, the attribute of the content part attribute information representing the character string of the cell is represented by CntInfo = 'character string of cell', the attribute name is CntInfo, and the attribute value is'character string of cell '.

The cell content system judging means 2445 checks the content system of the cell and, if it has the content part information of the character content system, notifies the cell data changing means 2444 that the character content system is indicated. In the second embodiment, it is one of text (character), image, graphic, and table. Find the content part information of the logical structure information of the cell (that is, the nested structure immediately below the table content part information), check the type of the content part information, and if it indicates the character content information, indicate the character content system. Is to be notified.

The cell logical structure deleting means 2446 deletes the logical structure information of the cell. In the second embodiment, when the logical structure information of one cell has a plurality of content part information, the logical structure of the paragraph including the content part information whose data has not been changed is deleted. For example, in the example of the tree structure expressing the logical structure information of one cell shown in FIG. 29, the specific basic logical object 2811A first appears in logical order (that is, left depth priority). Only the cell data in the content part information 2812A located below the specific basic logic object 2811A will be changed by the cell data changing means 2444. Therefore, the cell logical structure deleting means 2446 deletes the logical structure information below the specific basic logical object 2811B (that is, the second paragraph) and the logical structure information below the specific basic logical object 2811C (that is, the third paragraph). Further, in FIGS. 31 to 34 representing the cell information in the document file format, for example, in the example shown in FIG. 32, the character content portion of the 74th line is changed to a new content, while the 75th to 7th lines are changed.
The logical structure information up to the 8th line will be deleted.

The logical structure information thus deleted is held in the deleted information holding means 2447.

The processing of the third embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

Now, in the cell information group holding means 2410, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 7A, the cell information group corresponding to the cell group in the table of 3 rows and 4 columns is held, and the cell data group holding means 24
It is assumed that 41 holds a cell data group (character string matrix) of 2 rows and 2 columns as shown in FIG. Further, it is assumed that the content portion of the cell information is a character content system, and that the area indicated by diagonal lines in FIG. 37 (a) (the area of 2 rows and 2 columns) is specified as the flow area.

In this case, the cell selection information means 2420 sequentially selects the cell information from the cell information corresponding to the cell in the leftmost column of the first row in each cell in the flow-in area. Selects the cell information corresponding to the cell 3710A, and the cell information holding means 243.
Hold at 0. Further, the cell data selection means 2442 selects cell data from the cell data group (character string matrix) held in the cell data group holding means 2441 sequentially from the cell data in the leftmost column of the first row. Therefore, in this case, the cell data 3710B is selected and this cell data is held in the cell data holding means 2443 (step 3610).

When the cell information and the cell data are held in this way, the cell content system discriminating means 2445 checks the content part attribute information of the cell information held in the cell information holding means 2430 to determine that the content system is It is determined whether or not it is a character content system (step 3620).

Here, when the content system of the cell information is the character content system, the cell data changing means 2444 is notified that it is the character content system, so the cell data changing means 2444 is held by the cell data holding means 2443. Cell information holding means 2430 based on the cell data held in
The character string of the content information of the character content portion that is found first is changed in the logical order of the cell information held in (step 3630). This also means that the text of only the first paragraph in the cell will be changed.

When the cell information is changed in this way, the cell data logical structure deleting means 2446, when there are a plurality of paragraphs in the cell information in step 3630, deletes the logical structure information of the paragraph having the second and subsequent contents section information. It is deleted (step 3640). The logical structure information of the deleted paragraph is held in the deleted information holding means 2447.

Then, it is judged whether or not the cell information changing process is completed (step 3650), and if there is still cell information to be changed, the cell selection information means 2420.
Reads the next cell information from the cell information group holding means 2410 and holds it in the cell information holding means 2430, and the cell data selecting means 2442 reads the next cell data from the cell data group holding means 2441. , Cell data holding means 2443 holds (step 366).
0). In this example, the cell information and cell data 3720B corresponding to the cell 3720A are held respectively.

After step 3660 is completed, the procedure moves to step 3620, and the steps after this step are executed.
Steps 3620 to 3660 are repeated until the change process for the cell information to be changed is completed.

If the character content system is not found in step 3620, the process proceeds to step 3650, and if the changing process is completed in step 3650, the process is completed.

Therefore, in the example shown in FIG.
Cell information corresponding to each of 710A to 3740A is
The cell data will be changed to 3710B to 3740B.

[0240] Next, the modification of cell data will be described with a specific example.

Here, it is assumed that there are the following preconditions. (1) When there is an input document file ProductCatalog1.doc, change the cell data. At this time, only the cell content system is changed to the character content system. Note that the document file ProductCatalog1.doc is provided as a document to the user,
The image when output to a display device or printing device is shown in FIG.
It becomes like 8. Note that in FIG. 30, lines 3811-3 are shown.
In the region of four rows of 814 and four columns of columns 3821 to 3824, for example, (image1) is written in the cells indicated by rows 3811 and columns 3823, which means the image itself (that is, (Not a character string), the content part of the cell information is the image content system. Also, for example, in the cell indicated by the row 3811 and the column 3824, it is described as (figure 1), but this means the figure itself (that is, not a character string), and the content part of the cell information is the image content. It is a system. The same notation is used for the same meaning. (2) The cell data is stored in the content information file data1.dat. Below is the general operating system UN
The following shows how the contents of the file are displayed on the screen of the display device by the cat command of IX. % cat data1.dat Argoss, 550 ,, J Star, 250, printer, 200, refer to attached document Server, 300, refer to attached document. The cell data is stored in the content information file according to a specific format, that is, a character string matrix. 1
The 4th line from the 4th line represents the character string matrix, and for example, J Star on the 2nd line and the attached material reference on the 3rd line show one character string of the character string matrix. . Therefore, one character string represents one cell data. (3) I would like to change the data in the table in the example shown in FIG. 38 to the cell data in (2) above.

The setting method in such a case may be as follows. (1) Setting the area (flow area) you want to change. This flow-in area does not necessarily have to be set by the user, and if not set, the default flow-in is adopted. Here, since the flow-in area is not specified, the default is that lines 3811-3
Areas of four rows of 814 and four columns of columns 3821 to 3824 are set as the flow-in area. (2) Describe the command tupdate. This command
tupdate will be described later. % tupdate -cont data1.dat -reserve ProductCatalog1.doc> result1.doc where result1.doc is the output document file. The description content of the command tupdate means that the process satisfying the precondition (3) is executed. (3) When the contents of (1) and (2) above are set, the processing described in the processing procedure of FIG. 36 is executed, and as a result, the document file result1.doc is obtained. FIG. 39 shows a screen image in which this document file is displayed as a document on the display device.

In this processing, as described in the processing procedure of FIG. 36, cell information of cells is held in the order of rows 3811, ..., Row 3814 and in the order of columns 3821, ... 3824. Means 2430 will hold.

On the other hand, also in the cell data group (character string matrix) described in (2) above, as described in the processing procedure of FIG.
It is held in the cell data holding means 2443.

Here, for example, in the cell data group “Argoss, 550 ,,” in the first row, the cell data in the third and fourth columns does not exist, but in this case, the cell data is retained. A NULL character is written in the means 2443. As a matter of course, in this case, the cell contents in the columns 3823 and 3824 of the row 3811 do not have the character content system, so the cell information is not changed. The same applies to the other rows.

The device of the third embodiment has the same hardware configuration as that of the first embodiment shown in FIG.
Here, the means 2410 is the external storage device 1 shown in FIG.
530 and the main memory 1540, corresponding to the means 2430,
2441, 2443 and 2447 correspond to the main memory 1540 shown in FIG.
444, 2445, and 2446 are all CPs shown in FIG.
U1550 (actually realized by the CPU 1550 executing programs for performing respective functions).

As described above, according to the third embodiment, the cells of the table are represented by using a plurality of types of content system, logical structure, and style attribute. , You can change the value of the cell. For example, the content of the character content system can be changed to another content of the character content system.

Next, a fourth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 40 to 42.

FIG. 40 is a functional block diagram showing a fourth embodiment of the data processing apparatus according to the present invention. This functional block diagram is a functional block of the third embodiment shown in FIG. In the configuration of the figure, the cell content system changing means 4
010 and a change information holding unit 4020 are added.

The cell content system changing means 4010 performs the processing necessary for changing the cell content system. Delete existing content part information to change content system, insert content part information of desired content system, or delete existing logical structure information including content part information, and content part of desired content system Insert logical structure information that has information. When inserting new content part information or logical structure information, the change information of the change information holding unit 4020 may be referred to.

In the fourth embodiment, the cell content system changing means 4010 changes a cell that is not a character content system to the logical structure information of a cell of the character content system.

Change information holding means 4020 holds information necessary for changing the cell content system. Holds logical structure information and content part information appropriate for the content system to be changed. Various logical structure information and content part information may be provided and designated by the user or program. In the third embodiment, as described above, cells that are not in the character content system are changed to the logical structure information of the cells in the character content system. The logical structure information of the cell regarding the system is held. Of course, it is the logical structure information indicating one paragraph.

The apparatus of the fourth embodiment is basically designed to execute the same processing as that of the apparatus of the third embodiment. The difference from the third embodiment is that the character contents This means changing cells that are not in the system to the logical structure information of cells in the character content system.

Here, the content system other than the character content system means the graphic content system, the image content system, the raster content system, and the table content system, as described in the third embodiment.

That is, as shown in FIG. 41, steps 3610 to 3660 are executed except for the case of "NO" in step 3620 of the flowchart shown in FIG.
Processing similar to is performed.

If it is determined in step 3620 that it is not the character string content system, the cell content system changing means 4020
Based on the logical structure information of the content system to be changed held in the change information holding unit 4010, the logical structure information regarding the content system of the cell information held in the cell information holding unit 2430 is changed to that of the character content system. (Step 4100). After finishing this step 4100, the routine goes to step 3630 in FIG.

Next, the change of cell data will be described with a specific example.

Here, it is assumed that there are the following preconditions. (1) When there is a document file ProductCatalog1.doc corresponding to the screen image shown in FIG. 38, the cell data is changed. At this time, even if the cell content system is not a character content system, it is changed to a cell having character content. (2) The cell data is stored in the content information file data1.dat. Below is the general operating system UN
The following shows how the contents of the file are displayed on the screen of the display device by the cat command of IX. % cat dat2.dat Argoss, 550, Refer to Figure 1. Refer to Figure 1. Refer to J Star, 250, Refer to Figure 1. Refer to Figure 1. Printer, 200, Refer to Appendix 1, Refer to Appendix 1, Server, 300, Attach For example, see Material 2 and Attachment 2. The cell data is stored in the content information file according to a specific format, that is, a character string matrix. (3) I would like to change the data in the table in the example shown in FIG. 38 to the cell data in (2) above.

The setting method in such a case may be as follows. (1) In the case of this example as well, since the flow-in area is not specified, the default is 4 in lines 3811-3814.
Areas of four columns of rows and columns 3821 to 3824 are set as the flow-in areas. (2) Describe the command tupdate. This command
tupdate will be described later. % tupdate -cont data2.dat ProductCatalog1.doc> result2.doc where result2.doc is the output document file. The description content of the command tupdate means that the process satisfying the precondition (3) is executed. (3) When the contents of (1) and (2) above are set, the processing described in the processing procedure of FIG. 33 above is executed, and as a result, the document file result2.doc is obtained. FIG. 42 shows a screen image in which this document file is displayed as a document on the display device.

The apparatus of the fourth embodiment has the same hardware configuration as that of the first embodiment shown in FIG.
Here, the means 4010 is the main memory 154 shown in FIG.
0 corresponds to the CPU 40 shown in FIG.
50 (actually realized by the CPU 1550 executing programs for performing respective functions). It should be noted that the correspondence between the components shown in FIG. 40 other than the above and the components shown in FIG.
The relationship is the same as that described in the embodiment.

As described above, according to the fourth embodiment, a table cell is represented by using a plurality of types of content systems, logical structures, and style attributes, and these pieces of information are used to represent the cell. When changing the value, if the cell content system is different from the cell data content system, after changing the cell content system to the cell data content system, insert the cell data as the value of the cell. Therefore, even if the content system of the cell of the existing table is different from the content system of the cell data, the cell value can be changed to the desired cell data. For example, after changing the image content system of a cell to the character content system of cell data, cell data (characters) of the character content system can be inserted into the cell.

Next, a fifth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 43 to 45.

FIG. 43 is a functional block diagram showing the fifth embodiment of the data processing apparatus according to the present invention. This functional block diagram is the functional block of the fourth embodiment shown in FIG. In the configuration shown in the figure, the change information holding unit 411
0, the cell content system changing means 4120 and the cell data changing means 2444 are deleted, and the cell data dividing means 4310, the divided cell data holding means 4320, the cell content part information designating means 4330, the cell content part information holding means 4340, the divided cell data. Change unit 4350, additional information holding unit 436
0, cell logic structure adding means 4370 is added.

In the fifth embodiment, one cell data may exist corresponding to one cell, or one cell data may be divided into a plurality of cells.
Here, in the latter case, that is, one piece of cell data is composed of division information for dividing the cell data into a plurality of pieces and divided cell data which is the divided cell data. It should be noted that one cell may have zero or more division data.
That is, the cell data may be absent, or a plurality of division data may be present. One piece of divided cell data corresponds to one piece of content information of the cell content part information. The division information is used when the cell logical structure information includes a plurality of content part information and the cell data is divided to correspond to individual content part information.

Therefore, in the fifth embodiment, the cell data group including such cell data is held in the cell data group holding means 2441, and one cell data consisting of the divided cell data is held in the cell data holding means 2443. It may be held in.

The cell data dividing means 4310 examines one cell data held in the cell data holding means 2443, and extracts the divided cell data, the division information, and the end of the cell data separately. The order of extraction is the order in which they are found by checking from the beginning of the cell data. Then, the partitioned cell data partitioning unit 4310 holds the partitioned cell data extracted in this way in the partitioned cell data holding unit 4320 in the order of the fetched order, and also passes the partitioned cell data holding information designating unit 4330.

The cell content portion holding information designating means 4330 is
The divided cell data dividing means 4 is operated according to a rule for associating a predetermined sequence of divided cell data with a sequence of content part information found in a logical order in the logical structure of a predetermined cell.
Content section information corresponding to the divided cell data passed from 310 is specified by searching from the cell information holding means 2430. The pointer (address) of the content portion information thus identified is held in the cell content portion information holding means 4340.

The divided cell data changing means 4350 displays the content information of the content portion information of the logical structure of the cell held in the cell information holding means, which is pointed to by the pointer held in the cell content portion information holding means 4340. The value of the attribute of the indicated content section attribute information is set to the divided cell data holding unit 43.
Change to the divided cell data held in 20. In the fifth embodiment, since the specified content part information is the content part information of the logical structure information of the paragraph, the value of the content information attribute of the content part information is changed to that of the divided cell data. It

The additional information holding means 4360 holds the position information in the logical structure information of the cell to be added and the logical structure information to be added. These pieces of information are referred to by the cell logical structure adding means 4370. The position information and the logical structure information may be designated by the user or the program. In the fifth embodiment, the added logical structure information is the paragraph logical structure information, and the position information is information indicating the last position in the cell in the logical order in the logical structure information.

The cell logical structure adding means 4370, based on the logical structure information and the position information held in the additional information holding means 4360, the position of the logical structure information in the cell held in the cell information holding means 2430. The logical structure information is added to the position corresponding to the information.

Next, regarding the processing operation of the fifth embodiment,
This will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, when the same processing as step 3610 of FIG. 36 described in the third embodiment is performed (step 44
10) The cell content system discrimination means 2445 checks the cell information stored in the cell information storage means 2430, and determines whether or not the content part information of the character content system exists in the nested structure immediately below the table content part information. It is determined (4420).

When the content division information of the character content system exists, the cell content system discriminating means 24 indicates that it is the character content system.
Since the cell data dividing unit 4310 is notified from 45, the cell data dividing unit 4310 sequentially examines one cell data held in the cell data holding unit 2443 from the front to determine whether it is the divided cell data or the division information. , Of the end symbols of the cell data, the first one found is recognized. (Step 4430). It should be noted that when the next investigation is started, the object found once is not targeted, and the investigation is started from the next one. Further, when one cell data is not divided into a plurality of divided cell data (that is, only one undivided cell data), it is considered to be configured by only one divided cell data. When divided into multiple divided cell data, in general,
Sorted cell data, sorted information, sorted cell data, sorted information, ..., Sorted cell data, end symbol are arranged in this order.

Here, the processing in the case where the found items are the divided cell data, the divided information, and the termination symbol will be described.

First, in the case of divided cell data, the divided cell data is held in the divided cell data holding means 4320. Since the divided cell data holding means 4320 is adapted to be cleared every time the data of one cell is held, the divided cell data changing means 4350 is provided.
Recognizes that the divided cell data held after being cleared is the data corresponding to the first paragraph. Therefore, the sectioned cell data changing unit 4350 causes the cell information holding unit 24.
Among the logical structure information of the cells held in 30, the content section information that first appears in the logical order (that is, the logical structure information of the first paragraph) is the divided cell data held in the divided cell data holding means 4320. Change to (Step 4
440).

On the other hand, in the case of the division information, the cell data division means 4310 notifies the cell content part information designating means 4330 that the cell content division information designating means 4330 informs the cell content division information designating means 4330. The cell information in 2430 is referred to, the content section information next to the content section information held in the cell content section information holding means 4340 is searched, and it is determined whether or not the content section information exists (step 34).
50). Note that the order of searching is the content part information found by tracing the logical structure in the logical structure information of the cell. Content section information once found is not included. Further, since the cell content part information holding means 4340 is adapted to be cleared every time the data of one cell is held, the cell content part information designating means 4330 causes the cell content part information holding means 4340 to display nothing. If it is not held, the logical structure is traced in the logical order to search for the second content part information found. The reason is that the fact that it is the first division information is notified means that the first division cell data exists, and in this case,
This is because it means that the data change process has already been executed in step 4440.

In step 4450, if the contents section information exists, the pointer to the contents section information is held in the cell contents section information holding means 4340. afterwards,
Go to step 4430. On the other hand, when the content part information does not exist, the cell logical structure adding means 4370 is notified that the content part information does not exist.

In the cell logical structure adding means 4370, in the logical structure information of the cell in the cell information holding means 2430, the logical structure information (paragraph logical structure information) is arranged so as to be the last in the logical order in the logical structure. Is added (step 4460). In this fifth embodiment, since the logical structure information of the paragraph is added, the pointer to the content part of the added logical structure information is passed to the cell content part information designating means 4330. After finishing step 4460, the process proceeds to step 4430.

The cell content portion information designating means 4330 stores the passed pointer in the cell content portion information holding means 4340, and also notifies the cell data sorting means 4310 to continue the cell data sorting processing. by this,
The cell data division means 4310 will implement the process of step 4430. It is to be noted that since the cell division data is always present after the cell division information is found, when the cell content section information designating unit 4330 receives the notification of the continuation of the cell division processing, the process proceeds to step 4440.

Finally, in the case of the end symbol, the cell data logical structure deleting means 2446 is notified that it indicates the end, so the cell data logical structure deleting means 2446 is informed of the logical structure of the cell in the cell information holding means 2430. See the information
When there are a plurality of paragraphs, if there is a logical structure having content part information whose content information is not changed, that logical structure information is deleted (step 4470). If there is no logical structure to be deleted, nothing is done.

After step 4470 is completed, it is judged whether or not the cell information changing process is completed (step 4).
480), if the cell information to be changed still remains, the cell selection information means 2420 reads the next cell information from the cell information group holding means 2410, holds it in the cell information holding means 2430, and The data selection means 2442 reads the next cell data from the cell data group holding means 2441, and the cell data holding means 2443.
(Step 4490).

After step 4490 is completed, step 4420 is entered, and the steps after this step are executed.
Steps 4420 to 4490 are repeated until the change process for the cell information to be changed is completed.

If the character content system is not found in step 4420, the process proceeds to step 4480, and if the changing process is completed in step 4480, the process is completed.

Since the above-mentioned processing means that three kinds of changes are included in the cell information, the modes of those changes will be described below.

(1) First, when the number of paragraphs in one cell = the number of divided data of cell data (a) When there is one paragraph and one cell data (that is, no division), step 4430 → step 4440 →
The procedure is from step 4430 to step 4470, and nothing is processed in step 4470. (B) Next, when there are a plurality of paragraphs, for example, two paragraphs, and a plurality of sectioned cell data, for example, two sectioned cell data, step 4430 → step 4440 → step 4430 → step 4450 → step 4430 → step 4440.
→ Step 4430 → Step 4470,
Nothing is processed in step 4470.

(2) Next, in the case of the number of paragraphs in one cell <the number of divided data of cell data For example, when there are a plurality of divided cell data such as two paragraphs and three divided cell data, for example, three divided cell data, Up to two paragraphs, the process up to step 4470 of the procedure described in (1) (b) above is performed, and then step 4450 → step 4460 → step 4430 → step 4440 → step 4430 → step 4470. Nothing is processed in step 4470.

(3) Finally, in the case of the number of paragraphs in one cell> the number of divided data of cell data For example, in the case of a plurality of paragraphs, for example, three paragraphs, when there are two divided cell data, the above two paragraphs ( In the procedure described in 1) (b), the same processing as that up to and including step 4470 is performed. In this case, in step 4470, the logical structure information for the third paragraph is deleted. .

Next, the modification of cell data will be described with a specific example.

Here, it is assumed that there are the following preconditions. (1) When the document file ProductCatalog2.doc exists, change the cell data. At this time, the content system of the cell is
Change only the character content system. The document file Pr
The image when oductCatalog2.doc is output to the user as a document to a display device or a printing device is the same as that shown in FIG. (2) The cell data is stored in the content information file data3.dat. Below is the general operating system UN
The following shows how the contents of the file are displayed on the screen of the display device by the cat command of IX. % cat data3.dat Argoss \ p (0001), 550 ,, J Star \ p (0003), 250 ,, Printer \ p (0006), 200 ,, Attachment reference server \ p (0006), 200 ,, attached For example, referencing materials. The cell data is stored in the content information file according to a specific format, that is, a character string matrix. Examples of one cell data are Argoss \ p (0001), 550, and the attached materials. In the cell data Argoss \ p (0001), Argoss and (0001) are divisional cell data, \ p is division information, and (comma) is column division information. The terminator is a blank character. For example, a space character is set after the reference to the attachment or (comma). (3) I would like to change the data in the table in the example shown in FIG. 38 to the cell data in (2) above.

The setting method in such a case may be as follows. (1) Since the pouring area is not set here, the default pouring area is adopted. (2) Describe the command tupdate. This command
tupdate will be described later. % tupdate -cont data3.dat -reserve -np ProductCatalog2.doc> result3.doc where result3.doc is the output document file. The description content of the command tupdate means that the process satisfying the precondition (3) is executed. (3) When the contents of (1) and (2) above are set, FIG.
The processing as described in the processing procedure of No. 4 is executed, and as a result, the document file result3.doc is obtained.
A screen image in which this document file is displayed as a document on the display device is shown in FIG. In the example shown in FIG. 45, for example, in the process for the cell determined by the row 3811 and the column 3821, the same process as (2) of the above-described cell information change mode is performed. Further, for example, in the processing for the cell determined by the row 3811 and the column 3822, the same processing as (a) in (1) of the above-described cell information change mode is performed.

The apparatus of the fifth embodiment has the same hardware configuration as that of the first embodiment shown in FIG.
Here, the means 4320, 4340 and 4360 are both shown in FIG.
5 corresponding to the main memory 1540 shown in FIG.
4330, 4350, and 4370 are all C shown in FIG.
It corresponds to the PU 1550 (actually realized by the CPU 1550 executing programs for performing respective functions). The correspondence relationship between the components other than the above shown in FIG. 43 and the components shown in FIG. 15 is similar to the relationship described in the fourth embodiment.

As described above, according to the fifth embodiment, a table cell is represented by using a plurality of types of content system, logical structure, and style attribute, and these pieces of information are used to represent the cell. When changing the value, in one cell,
If the logical structure of the paragraph is insufficient, add the necessary logical structure for the paragraph to the existing logical structure, then insert the partitioned cell data in the relevant cell, or if the logical structure of the paragraph is left over,
Since the logical structure is deleted, the logical structure in the cell, that is, the structure of the paragraph can be arbitrarily changed. For example, one paragraph in a cell can be changed to two paragraphs, or three paragraphs can be changed to two paragraphs.

Next, a sixth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 46 to 48.

FIG. 46 is a functional block diagram showing a sixth embodiment of the data processing apparatus according to the present invention. This functional block diagram is a functional block diagram of the fifth embodiment shown in FIG. In the configuration shown in the figure, a modification information holding means 4010 and a cell content system modification means 4020 of the functional block diagram of the fourth embodiment shown in FIG. 40 are added. Note that, in the figure, the same reference numerals are given to portions that perform the same functions as the constituent elements shown in FIG.

The device of the sixth embodiment is basically
The same processing as in the fifth embodiment is performed. The difference from the fifth embodiment is that the content part of the character content system is changed and the content part of the content system other than the character content system is changed. Is also to be changed.

That is, as shown in FIG.
Other than the process in the case of “NO” in step 4420 of 4,
The same processing as steps 4410 to 4490 is performed.
If the character content system is not found in step 4420, the same processing as step 4100 in FIG. 41 is performed (step 4700). That is, the logical structure information about the cell information content system is changed to that of the character content system. After finishing step 4700, the routine goes to step 4430 in FIG.

Next, the modification of cell data will be described with a specific example.

Here, it is assumed that there are the following preconditions. (1) When the document file ProductCatalog2.doc exists, change the cell data. At this time, the content system of the cell is
Change only the character content system. The document file Pr
The image when oductCatalog2.doc is output to the user as a document to a display device or a printing device is the same as that shown in FIG. (2) The cell data is stored in the content information file data4.dat. Below is the general operating system UN
The following shows how the contents of the file are displayed on the screen of the display device by the cat command of IX. % cat data4.dat Argoss \ p (0001), 550, Figure 1. See Figure 1. See J Star ¥ p (0003), 250, Fig 2. See Figure 2. Reference Printer \ p (0006), 200, Attachment 1 Reference, Attachment 1 Reference Server \ p (0006), 200, Attachment 2 Reference, Attachment 2 Reference. The cell data is stored in the content information file according to a specific format, that is, a character string matrix. (3) I would like to change the data in the table in the example shown in FIG. 38 to the cell data in (2) above.

The setting method in such a case may be as follows. (1) Since the pouring area is not set here, the default pouring area is adopted. (2) Describe the command tupdate. This command
tupdate will be described later. % tupdate -cont data4.dat -reserve -np ProductCatalog2.doc> result4.doc where result4.doc is the output document file. The description content of the command tupdate means that the process satisfying the precondition (3) is executed. (3) When the contents of (1) and (2) above are set, FIG.
The processing described in the processing procedure of 9 is executed, and as a result, the document file result4.doc is obtained.
A screen image in which this document file is displayed as a document on the display device is shown in FIG.

Now, paying attention to FIG. 48, it can be seen that the image content system of the cells shown in, for example, the row 3811 and the column 3823 shown in FIG. 38 has been changed to the character content system. Of course, in this case it is also clear that the data in all 16 cells has been changed.

The apparatus of the sixth embodiment has the same hardware configuration as that of the first embodiment shown in FIG.
Here, the correspondence relationship between the means 4010 and 4020 and the constituent elements shown in FIG. 15 is similar to the relationship described in the fourth embodiment, and the constituent elements other than the above shown in FIG.
The correspondence relationship with the constituent elements shown in is the same as the relationship described in the fifth embodiment.

As described above, according to the sixth embodiment, the cells of the table are expressed by using a plurality of types of content system, logical structure, and style attribute, and the information of the cells is used by using these information. When changing the value, if the cell content system is different from the cell data content system, after changing the cell content system to the cell data content system, insert the cell data as the value of the cell. In addition, when changing the cell value, if the logical structure of paragraphs is insufficient in one cell, add the necessary logical structure for the paragraph to the existing logical structure and Is inserted or when the logical structure of the paragraph is left over, the logical structure is deleted, so even if the content system of the cell of the existing table and the content system of the cell data are different. ,
The cell value can be changed to desired cell data, and the logical structure in the cell, that is, the configuration of paragraphs can be changed arbitrarily. For example, after changing the image content system of a cell to the character content system of cell data, cell data (characters) of the character content system can be inserted into the cell, and one paragraph in the cell can be changed to two paragraphs. You can change it or change three paragraphs into two paragraphs.

Next, the command tupdate described in the first to sixth embodiments will be described. This command operates on UNIX which is a general-purpose operating system. Therefore, the command description rule is UN
It is used in the IX online manual. For example, what is enclosed in square brackets ([]) means that it can be omitted. Here, a vertical bar (|) and braces ({}) are introduced. The vertical bar indicates that you should select either of the two,
Braces indicate that one of them is always selected.

[Name] tupdate-Update character data of table cell [Format] tupdate [-cont {content-filename ｜-} [-c] ｜ {[-newcol character] [-enclose characrer]} [-lu row1 column1 -rb row2 column2] [-reserve] [-colseq column-sequence] [-generate [-tmprow column1 column2] [-upperline]]] [-cell row column string] [-nl] [-np] [- tblname table-name] [-cap [-u ｜ -b ｜ -l ｜ -r] caption-string] {document-filename ｜-} ◇ Functional description This command updates the character content information of the table cells. Means That is, (1) The character string matrix included in the file is regarded as the character string contents corresponding to the regions of the plurality of cells of the table, and the character contents of the table are updated for the plurality of cells. (2) It is also possible to update the character content by designating one cell. (3) Further, the character string of the frame heading can be updated. The resulting document is output to the front output. Even if the character string matrix is poured into the specified area of the table, it may overflow from the table. At this time, the table can be expanded to store the overflowed character string matrix in the table.

Option command-cont {content-file
name |-} This is for specifying the content information file content-filename. Content information file content-filename
Contains a matrix whose elements are strings. Character strings included in the content information file are regarded as character content information of table cells.
There is a format to make it easier to map to the table cell of the character string of the file. When the content information file is specified in this way, in the table of the first text of the document file document-filename, in the specified flow area,
The character string of the content information file is poured.

Optional command -c This is for specifying that the format of the character string matrix is a preset format. If option -c is specified, options -newcol and -enclose cannot be specified. In the case of the -c option, the character "\" in the content information file is replaced with the tab character.

Option command -newcol character This is for designating the column classification character of the character string. Only one ASCII character can be specified for character. If the character is the same as a special character such as c-shell, it needs to be escaped by enclosing it in single quotes.

Option command -enclose character This is for designating a character enclosing a character string matrix. The string must contain character at the beginning and end of the string. The character content of the table cell is the character before and after the character string removed. In addition, even if there are column delimiters and line delimiters in the characters sandwiched between the characters in the character string, they are regarded as normal characters. In addition, the character between the characters
If is included, the character is duplicated and escaped.

-Lu row1 column1 -rb row2 column2 This is for designating the cells at the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the flow-in area by row number and column number. That is, the cell at the upper left corner is specified by writing -lu (left upper) and then writing the row number row1 and column number column1 at the upper left of the cell. The cell at the lower right corner is specified by writing -rb (rigth bottom) followed by the row number row2 and column number column2 at the lower right of the cell. ro
w1, column1 must specify the upper left cell of the area and row2, column2 must specify the lower right cell of the area. This option takes priority even when the flow area is specified by a character string.

Optional command -reserve This is to specify that when the cell of the flow area is other than the character content system, the content system is changed to the character content system and the character string is not flowed in the cell. belongs to. That is, the contents of cells other than the character content system are saved.

Option command -colseq column-seq
uence This is when pouring a string matrix into the generated line,
It is used to specify the column-sequence to be flowed in the string matrix. column-sequence is a sequence in which the numbers (1 origin) of the character string matrix are separated by white space.

Optional command -generate This is to specify a template row when the number of rows of the character string matrix is larger than the number of rows of the flow area and overflow from the flow area, and the line generated based on the template line is It is for pouring the extra lines. The generated lines are connected directly below the template line. The template row is a row that includes the bottom row of the flow-in area and cells on the left and right of the row are columns of the table. Even if a new line is created based on the template line, the template line is not deleted. Only when this option command -generate is used, the option command -tmprow, -upperli
ne is available. The template line can be specified by the option command -tmprow.

Option command -tmprow column1 c
olumn2 This is to specify the left and right columns of the template line. The left and right columns of the template row are column numbers column1, co
Specify with lumn2. The columns of the flow area must be included within the specified range with column1 at the left and column2 at the right.

Option command -upperline This is to specify that the horizontal ruled line of a new line generated based on the template is based on the horizontal ruled line above the template.

◇ -cell row column string This is for overwriting the character string string in one cell. A cell is specified by row number row and column number column. If the specified cell is not in the character content system, it is changed to a cell in the character content system and the character string is written.

Optional command -nl This is because if the character string that is the element of the character string matrix contains \ n, the character string after \ n will be carriage return line feed in the paragraph of the cell into which the character string is inserted. belongs to. The character string \ n is not poured.

Optional command -np If the character string that is the element of the character string matrix contains \ p, the character string after \ p is inserted into a new paragraph when the character string is inserted into a cell. It is a thing. \ P is not flowed into any paragraph. The new paragraph is created inheriting the attributes of the previous paragraph.

Option command -tblname table-nam
e This is for specifying the table content information by matching the attribute value of the frame attribute user visible name with the character string table-name. If there are multiple table frames to be matched with the character string table-name, the document is searched from the beginning of the document, and the table frame found first is matched.

Option command -cap [-u | -b | -l
| -R] caption-string This is to set the caption by regarding the character string caption-string as character content information. In order to set the position of the caption, -u, -b, -l-r are for setting the captions of up, down, left, and right, respectively. (A) One option is a hyphen (-)
It is a pair of option name and argument that starts with. (B) The order of the options is arbitrary.

Document file document-filename This is the document file document-fil with the target table.
It is used to specify the ename. Document file docu
The ment-filename must be able to specify the first body text frame, starting from the beginning of the document. This is done using the optional command -tblname table-name above.
The body table can also have a frame name table-name. Also, the above-mentioned optional commands -cont, -cell, -cap
If one or more of these options are not specified, the text content of the table frame of the first text is not updated. If neither option is specified, the documentation file docu
The same as ment-filename is output to standard output.

In the first and second embodiments and the fourth to sixth embodiments, the document data having the table has the same format as the third content shown in FIGS. 31 to 34. ing. That is, in the first and second embodiments,
Data modification processing is performed on the contents of the formats shown in FIGS. 31 to 34, and in the third to sixth embodiments, FIGS.
In the contents of the format shown in (1), the processing for changing the logical structure of one cell is performed.

[0322]

As described above, according to the present invention, the cell data changing means manages the cell information of the cell for changing the data among the plurality of cells forming the table included in the document. Since the value of the cell included in the cell information managed by the means is changed to the data held in the cell data holding means, the data of some cells in the table are changed, and other The part (that is, the document content) of can be reused.

Further, according to the present invention, the cell information holding means includes, for at least one cell of the plurality of cells forming the table, at least the content part information which is the value of the cell and the logical object information, A cell information management unit holds cell information configured to have a logical structure information indicating a logical configuration of a cell and cell attribute information indicating a style of the entire cell, and the cell information management means accesses and manages the cell information. Since it is set, the cell information can be referred to and updated.

Further, according to the present invention, the table content information holding means holds the ruled line information forming the table composed of a plurality of cells and the information about the cells as the table content information, and the cell data group holding means, Holding a data group described as a value of each of a plurality of cells, by the table content information expansion means, when the number of cells corresponding to the data group is larger than the number of cells in the existing table content information, Since the existing table content information is extended so as to correspond to the data group, the table is extended according to the amount of cell data, and thus it is possible to reliably change to a desired table. it can.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a first embodiment of a data processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a more detailed functional block diagram of the apparatus shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a document data structure.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of logical object information.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of content section information.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a logical structure of document data.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a document corresponding to the document data shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining a pouring area.

FIG. 9 is a main routine (flow chart) showing the overall processing operation of the first embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a subroutine showing a table content information search processing operation.

FIG. 11 is a subroutine showing a cell information group search processing operation.

FIG. 12 is a subroutine showing a table data change processing operation.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a screen image example of an input document file in the first embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image of an output document file in the first embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a hardware configuration diagram for realizing the device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a functional block diagram showing a second embodiment of the data processing device according to the present invention.

17 is a more detailed functional block diagram of the apparatus shown in FIG.

FIG. 18 is a diagram for explaining a model formed by a casting region and a default.

FIG. 19 is a diagram for explaining a casting region and a model by designation.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the second embodiment.

FIG. 21 is a diagram for explaining a process of processing according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image of an input document file in the second embodiment.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image of an output document file in the second embodiment.

FIG. 24 is a functional block diagram showing a third embodiment of the data processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing an example of a data structure of cell information.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing an example of logical object information.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing an example of content section information.

FIG. 28 is a diagram showing an example of cell information when there are six cells in the table.

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing an example of cell information when three paragraphs exist in one cell.

FIG. 30 is a diagram showing an example of a multiple nesting structure.

FIG. 31 is a diagram showing an example of data contents in a document file showing an example of a cell.

FIG. 32 is a diagram showing an example of data contents in a document file showing an example of a cell.

FIG. 33 is a diagram showing an example of data contents in a document file showing an example of a cell.

FIG. 34 is a diagram showing an example of data contents in a document file showing an example of a cell.

FIG. 35 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image of a document corresponding to the data content of the document file shown in FIGS. 31 to 34.

FIG. 36 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the third embodiment.

FIG. 37 is a diagram for explaining the process of the process of the third embodiment.

FIG. 38 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image of an input document file in the third embodiment.

FIG. 39 is a diagram showing a screen image example of an output document file in the third embodiment.

FIG. 40 is a functional block diagram showing a fourth embodiment of the data processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 41 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 42 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image of an output document file in the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 43 is a functional block diagram showing a fifth embodiment of the data processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 44 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 45 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image of an output document file in the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 46 is a functional block diagram showing a sixth embodiment of the data processing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 47 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 48 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image of an output document file in the sixth embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

110 ... Cell information group managing means, 120 ... Cell data group holding means, 130 ... Cell data group changing means, 111 ... Document data holding means, 112 ... Table content information search condition holding means, 113 ... Table content information searching means, 114 ... table content information holding means, 115 ... cell information group search condition holding means, 11
6 ... Cell information group searching means, 117 ... Cell information group holding means, 221 ... Content information file holding means, 222 ... Content information file designating means, 223 ... Cell data group reading means, 231 ... Table content information search condition input means, 232 ...
Table content information search condition reading means, 241 ... Cell information group search condition input means, 242 ... Cell information group search condition reading means, 310 ... Document data identification information, 320 ... Document attribute information, 330 ... Document appearance information, 340 ... Logic Structural information, 341, 1721 ... Logical object information, 341
A, 1721A ... Logical object identifier information, 241
B, 1721B ... Logical object attribute information, 342,
1722 ... content section information, 342A, 1722A ... content section identifier information, 342B, 1722B ... content section attribute information,
1510 ... Input device, 1520 ... Display device, 1530 ...
External storage device, 1540 ... Main memory, 1550 ... Central processing unit (CPU), 1560 ... Bus, 1610 ... Cell information group management means, 1620 ... Cell data group holding means, 16
30 ... Cell information expansion means, 1631 ... Template management means,
1631A ... Template condition holding means, 1631B ... Template search means, 1631C ... Template holding means, 1632 ... Cell information addition judging means, 1633 ... Cell information addition parameter holding means, 1634 ... Cell information addition processing means, 163
5 ... Cell information addition partial table holding means 2410 ... Cell information group holding means, 2420 ... Cell information selecting means, 2430 ... Cell information holding means, 2440 ... Cell information managing means, 244
1 ... Cell data group holding means, 2442 ... Cell data selecting means, 2443 ... Cell data holding means, 2444 ... Cell data changing means, 2445 ... Cell content system judging means, 2
446 ... Cell data logical structure deleting means, 2447 ... Delete information holding means, 2510 ... Cell attribute information, 2520 ... Logical structure information, 4010 ... Change information holding means, 4020 ...
Cell content system changing means, 4310 ... Cell data dividing means, 4320 ... Divided cell data holding means, 4330 ... Cell content part information designating means, 4340 ... Cell content part information holding means, 4350 ... Divided cell data changing means, 4360 ...
Additional information holding means, 4370 ... Cell logic structure adding means.

Claims (13)

[Claims] 1. A cell information management unit that holds and manages cell information about a cell in order to change the data among a plurality of cells forming a table included in a document, and as cell data included in the cell information. A data processing device comprising: cell data holding means for holding new data to be described; and cell data changing means for changing the data of the cell based on the contents held in the cell data holding means. . 2. The cell information management means includes document data holding means for holding document data having table content information indicating a table composed of at least a plurality of cells; and the table content information from the document data holding means. The table content information searching means for searching for a table content information holding means for holding a search result of the table content information searching means.
Data processing equipment. 3. The cell information management means includes document data holding means for holding document data having at least one table content information indicating a table composed of at least a plurality of cells, and table content information indicating a specific table. Table content information search condition holding means for holding table content information search conditions when searching for, and table content information search means for searching table content information matching the table content information search conditions from the document data holding means A table content information holding unit that holds a search result of the table content information searching unit; a cell information search condition holding unit that holds a cell information search condition for searching cell information regarding the cell; 2. The data processing device according to claim 1, further comprising: cell information searching means for searching for cell information matching the cell information searching condition. 4. A table content information holding means for holding ruled line information forming a table composed of a plurality of cells and information about the cells as table content information, and a new data group described as data of each of the plurality of cells. Cell data group holding means for holding, and when the number of cells corresponding to the data group is larger than the number of cells in the table content information, the table content information is expanded to correspond to the data group. A data processing device comprising: a table content information expanding unit. 5. The table content information expansion unit determines that the number of cells corresponding to the data group is larger than the number of cells in the table content information, and new table content information needs to be added. It is necessary to add new table content information by the cell information addition determining means, a template managing means for holding and managing a template referred to when generating table content information to be added, and the cell information addition determining means. When it is determined that the new table content information is generated based on the template so as to correspond to the data group, and the new table content information is stored in the table content information holding unit. 5. The data processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising cell information addition processing means for adding to the content information. 6. The template managing means holds template condition holding means set as a condition for determining ruled line information and cell information to be a template, and ruled line information conforming to the template condition. And a template search means for searching the table content information holding means for cell information, and a template holding means for holding the ruled line information and the cell information searched by the template search means as a template. The data processing device according to claim 5. 7. A logical structure information indicating a logical configuration of the cell, including at least content part information which is a value of the cell and logical object information for one cell among a plurality of cells forming the table. And cell information holding means for holding cell information configured to have cell attribute information indicating the style of the entire cell, and cell information managing means for accessing and managing the cell information. Data processing device. 8. The cell information management means holds cell data holding means for holding new data described as data of the one cell, and cell information in the cell information holding means based on the new data. 8. The data processing device according to claim 7, further comprising cell data changing means for changing the content portion information therein. 9. The cell content system determining means for determining the content system of the cell by referring to the logical structure information in the cell information, and the cell content system determined by the cell content system determining means, 9. The data according to claim 8, further comprising cell content system changing means for changing the content system of the cell to the content system of the new data when different from the content system of the new data. Processing equipment. 10. The data processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising logical structure updating means for updating the logical structure information of said one cell in accordance with a change processing result by said cell data changing means. 11. The logical structure updating means, when the logical structure information of the one cell includes a plurality of content part information, sets the logical structure of the paragraph including the content part information whose data is not changed. 11. The data processing apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising a cell logical structure deleting unit for deleting. 12. The logical structure updating means holds additional information holding means for holding information including a logical structure to be added and position information indicating a position to add the logical structure, and contents held by the additional information holding means. 11. The cell data processing device according to claim 10, further comprising cell logical structure adding means for adding a new logical structure to the logical structure information based on the above. 13. The cell information management means divides new data described as data for the one cell into division information for dividing the new data into a plurality of pieces, and the division information. Cell data holding means for holding as cell data configured to have divided data that is data, and cell data held in the cell data holding means, in the extraction order determined according to the division information, divided cell data Cell data dividing means for taking out, a plurality of divided data taken out by the cell data dividing means, a divided data holding means for holding the plurality of divided data in the order in which they are taken out, and a plurality of divided data held by the divided data holding means Content section that appears in the logical order in the arrangement of the divided data and the logical structure information of the cells held in the cell information holding means According to a preset rule for associating with a sequence of information, a cell content part information designating means for designating content part information corresponding to the plurality of divided cell data, and a content designated by the cell content part information designating means Cell content part information holding means for holding part information, and the value of the content part attribute information representing the content information of the content part information held in the cell content part information holding means, the held content in the divided data holding means 8. The data processing device according to claim 7, further comprising: a divided cell data changing unit for changing the divided cell data.