CN114970462A - Method and system for automatically marking change marks on data modules - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a method and a system for automatically marking a change mark on a data module. In the invention, for the data module, the previous version data module can be compared with the changed data module on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis to identify one or more technical changes or non-technical changes in the changed data module for the previous version data module. While the electronic technology publication file for the change data module is displayed, applying a change flag to indicate which content to change for the technology change; for non-technical changes, the changed content is directly displayed without applying a change mark.

Description

Method and system for automatically marking change marks on data modules

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical publication field, mainly relating to a method and a system for automatically marking a change mark on a data module.

Background

The main manufacturers of civil aircraft engines provide the customers with technical publications that guarantee the continuous airworthiness and safe operation of the aircraft, both for airworthiness regulatory requirements and for customer requirements. OEMs worldwide employ an Interactive Electronic Technology Publication (IETP) compliant with the european aerospace and defense industry Association (ASD) S1000D specification for providing to airlines and major repair shops for ensuring continued airworthiness and safe operation of aircraft. In the specification of S1000D, the data module is the smallest unit of a technical publication, and is written in XML language based on Schema of international standards, and the data modules are combined into a book as required, that is, a generalized technical publication. The publication is changed and maintained to be crucial throughout the whole life cycle of the product, airworthiness regulations require that the modification of the publication needs to be changed and marked, and technical publication business rules also stipulate the change and marked mode.

With the rapid development of Interactive Electronic Technology Publications (IETP), the data storage and exchange of technical publications are supported by adopting extensible markup language (XML) format in the industry. The extensible markup language format provides flexibility in converting to other electronic technology publication files in a format that is easy to read and/or manipulate, such as the hypertext markup language (HTML) format and the Portable Document Format (PDF).

Generally, there are about thirty thousand data modules for an aircraft, and the publication data module needs to be frequently changed due to design change and customer opinion feedback during use, and a change mark, that is, a visual indication of the change mark, is needed for a user to clearly recognize the change. Technical publication business rules also specify that modification flags are to be made for data module modifications. The traditional change is to manually change the content record, and the changed content is manually marked in the XML language. This can result in significant work for the publisher, as well as missed or even erroneous changes to the mark due to human error.

Therefore, how to avoid the missing mark or the wrong mark caused by human error is a technical problem which needs to be solved urgently. Meanwhile, the formulation of the change mark style and mark granularity aiming at the interactive electronic technology publication which is popular at present is also a technical problem which needs to be solved urgently at present.

Disclosure of Invention

This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the detailed description. This summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter.

According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for automatically labeling a data module in an interactive electronic technology publication with a change mark is provided, which comprises the following steps: (a) receiving an instruction for comparing the previous life version data module with the changed data module; (b) comparing, in response to the instruction, the previous version data module to the change data module on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis to identify a change in the change data module to the previous version data module, wherein the change includes a technical change to the technical content or a non-technical change to the non-technical content; (c) adding change information to the changed element in a change data module, wherein the change information comprises information indicating a change state and a change type, the change state indicates technical change or non-technical change, and the change type indicates addition, modification or deletion; (d) presenting an electronic technology publication document based on a change data module having change information, wherein in the electronic technology publication document, change indicia are applied for technical changes and no change indicia are applied for non-technical changes.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a system for automatically labeling a data module in an interactive electronic technology publication with a change mark, including: a content comparison module configured to compare the content of the previous version data module with the content of the change data module based on a received instruction to compare the content of the previous version data module with the content of the change data module to identify a change in the change data module for the previous version data module; a marking module configured to add change information to the element in which the change occurred in the change data module, the change information including information indicating a change status indicating a technical change or a non-technical change and a change type indicating an addition, a modification, or a deletion; a presentation module configured to present the electronic technology publication file based on the change data module having the change information, wherein in the electronic technology publication file, the change flag is applied for the technical change and the change flag is not applied for the non-technical change.

According to a further embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computing device for automatically labeling a data module in an interactive electronic technology publication with a change mark, the computing device including: a processor; a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, are capable of performing the above-described method.

These and other features and advantages will become apparent upon reading the following detailed description and upon reference to the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are explanatory only and are not restrictive of aspects as claimed.

Drawings

So that the manner in which the above recited features of the present invention can be understood in detail, a more particular description of the invention, briefly summarized above, may be had by reference to embodiments, some of which are illustrated in the appended drawings. It is to be noted, however, that the appended drawings illustrate only some typical aspects of this invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope, for the description may admit to other equally effective aspects.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram 100 of a portion of a data module in the prior art;

FIG. 2 shows a prior art schematic 200-a of a content change mark and a table change mark in an electronic technical publication file presented in PDF or WORD format 200-b;

FIG. 3 shows a diagram 300-a illustrating a content change mark and a diagram 300-b illustrating a form change mark in an electronic technology publication file presented in a PDF or WORD format, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 illustrates a system 400 for automatically labeling a data module in an interactive electronic technology publication with a change mark, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 illustrates a flow diagram of a method 500 for automatically labeling a data module in an interactive electronic technology publication with a change mark, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 shows a block diagram 600 of an exemplary computing device according to an embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings, and the features of the present invention will be further apparent from the following detailed description.

The ASD S1000D specification is a specification issued by the european association of the aviation and defense industries (ASD) for the digitization of technical data, including organization of technical data, format requirements, management updates, and distribution programs. The ASD S1000D specification covers technical publishing activities that support any system engineering including space, sea, land vehicles, equipment or facilities, etc., while including all aspects of civil or military technical documentation. The ASD S1000D specification is to adopt a system partitioning method to decompose technical data into individual data modules, which is not only beneficial to management and maintenance of product technical information through a database, but also convenient for generation and use of technical data, so that its information processing method has higher versatility.

Specifically, the SGML or XML intermediate format file generated according to the ASD S1000D specification is produced in a modular form, referred to as a "data module". The data module is an independent data unit for describing a part of complete information of the product, and in the concept of S1000D, the data module is a minimum unit for describing information, and is composed of two types of data: technical type content and non-technical type content. In general, the non-technical type content includes, for example, management information of all technical document materials, i.e., type information (e.g., number, title, release number, release date, language, etc.) and status information (e.g., security level, applicability, technical standard, quality assurance status, update reason, etc.) of the document materials. The technical type content includes document content bodies such as text descriptions, tables, and legends. In the context of the present invention, for convenience of explanation, a change to "non-technical type content" by a writer is referred to as a "non-technical change", and a change to "technical type content" is referred to as a "technical change".

In the prior art, as described above, the data modules exist in the background as XML documents. When a writer changes a data module in the background, the writer needs to open the XML document of the data module for modification. Meanwhile, the writer needs to manually compare the currently modified XML document with the XML document of the previous version of the data module, and manually mark the modified content in the modified XML document. Such an operation is very cumbersome and complicated and is prone to errors. Furthermore, as shown below in fig. 2, when an electronic technology publication file (such as in PDF or WORD format) for a reader is generated based on a modified XML document, the change mark also does not clearly embody the specific changes, thereby resulting in that the reader cannot tell which specific changes the current version of the data module has made compared to the previous version of the data module. In the context of the present invention, a "data module" refers in particular to an editable document in XML format intended for a writer, whereas a document intended for presentation intended for a reader is called an "electronic technology publication file" (PDF or WORD document in general). The way of conversion from data modules to electronic technology publication files, i.e. from XML documents to PDF or WORD documents, is known in the art and is not limiting in the present invention.

The invention aims to design a set of automatic scheme to automatically compare the content of a data module on the basis of paragraph tags in an XML (extensible markup language) without manual comparison of a writer, and when an electronic technical publication file is generated, the technical change content is highlighted by automatically applying a change mark, while the non-technical change content is automatically displayed after the change without applying the change mark.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram 100 of a portion of a data module in the prior art. As is well known to those skilled in the art, data modules exist in the form of XML documents. The elements in an XML document form a document tree. This tree starts at the root and extends to the lowest end of the tree. The root element is the parent element of all other elements. All elements may possess sub-elements. Parent, child, and sibling terms are used to describe relationships between elements. The parent element owns the child element. The child elements on the same hierarchy level become siblings (brothers or sisters). All elements may possess textual content and/or attributes.

In general, if an element has an attribute, its basic format is < element name attribute name ═ attribute value "/>. If an element has multiple attributes, its basic format is: < element name attribute name ═ attribute value ═ attribute name ═ attribute value >. If an element has text, its basic format is < element name > text < element name/>. If an element has both an attribute and text, its basic format is < element name attribute name ═ attribute value "> text < element name/>.

For example, in FIG. 1, < dmodule > may be considered a root element. For another example, in fig. 1, < proceduralStep id ═ stp-0001"> where" proceduralStep "is an element name," id "is an attribute name, and" step-0001 "is an attribute value. However, an attribute having a unique identification function such as "id" may also be referred to as an index. For another example, in < title > definition </title >, in fig. 1, "< title > is an element name, and" definition "is a text.

Fig. 2 shows a prior art schematic 200-a of a content change mark and a schematic 200-b of a form change mark in an electronic technical publication file presented in PDF or WORD format. As can be seen from the diagram 200-a, the border of the row (e.g., the left side in the drawing) where the modified content is located is marked with a modification mark in a vertical line pattern. The change flag indicates that the contents of the line have changed compared to the last document version. However, this type of change mark may cause unclear problems. For example, referring to the paragraph labeled 4, although the modification flag is marked on the left side of a line of "components, if you find dammage to a component, do the specified edition for that component. That is, the reader cannot determine whether the "components" is changed or whether the subsequent "If you find dam to a component" is changed, and do the specified evaluation for the at component ". Similarly, referring to diagram 200-b, although a change flag is marked on the left side of the line labeled 2 in the paragraph of the table, the reader cannot determine which particular table cell in the line (e.g., "Seal ring", "CSN: 79351001190", or "1") has changed compared to the previous document version.

Fig. 3 shows a schematic view 300-a of a content change mark and a schematic view 300-b of a form change mark in an electronic technology publication file presented in PDF or WORD format according to an embodiment of the present invention. Both the tag format and the tag granularity in fig. 3 are clearly optimized compared to the conventional scheme shown in fig. 2. For example, for content, only the modified content can be highlighted (e.g., highlighted), rather than the labeling of the modification marker only at the border of the row where the modified content is located, as shown in FIG. 2. For tables, changes to each cell in the changes can be highlighted (e.g., highlighted) rather than just labeling the change labels at the line boundaries where each cell is located, as shown in FIG. 2.

For example, in comparison to FIG. 2, diagram 300-a in FIG. 3 clearly shows what has been specifically altered from the last document version. The diagram 300-b clearly shows which table cells have their contents changed as compared to the previous document version.

FIG. 4 illustrates a system 400 for automatically labeling a data module with a change mark according to one embodiment of the invention. As shown in fig. 4, the system 400 is divided into modules, with communication and data exchange between the modules being performed in a manner known in the art. In the present invention, each module may be implemented by software or hardware or a combination thereof.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a data module writer makes a change or revision to a data module A having an XML format, thereby producing a changed data module A'. Hereinafter, for convenience of description, the data module a is referred to as a "last-generation version data module", and the data module a' is referred to as a "change data module". According to one embodiment of the invention, the modification of the data module includes, for example, the addition, modification and/or deletion of content in the data module.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, after the writer completes the modification or the revision of the previous version data module to form the modified data module, the writer may issue an instruction to activate the content comparison module 401, thereby entering the automatic comparison process. For example, the author may issue an automatic alignment instruction to the system 400 via a "generate" button on the author user interface or any other means. Alternatively, the system may automatically issue 400 a compare instruction when the change data module is saved. In this way, the writer does not need to manually perform content comparison and manually perform change marking to generate the electronic technology publication file.

The content comparison module 401 is configured to receive an automatic comparison instruction, compare the content of the previous version data module with the content of the changed data module, and identify a change in the changed data module for the previous version data module. According to one embodiment of the invention, the change may be a technical change (i.e., a change to technical type content) or a non-technical change (i.e., a change to non-technical type content).

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the content comparison module 401 compares the XML language paragraph tag in the previous version data module with the XML language paragraph tag in the modified data module, so as to perform automatic comparison on the content in the paragraph marked by the paragraph tag. For example, the paragraph with paragraph tag ID of par-0001 in the previous version data module is compared with the paragraph with paragraph tag ID of par-0001 in the modification data module to identify whether the modification has occurred.

According to one embodiment of the invention, when content alignment module 401 finds an element in the change data module that is changed, it sends an instruction to mark module 402 to enter the marking process. The marking module 402 is configured to add change information to the elements identified as changed in the change data module for the respective comparison results and change types based on the marking rules.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the marking rules specify: change Mark information is supplemented at the element being changed, the information including a "Change Mark" attribute indicating the state of the Change (indicating whether the Change belongs to a technical Change or a non-technical Change) and a "Change type" attribute indicating the type of Change. If the change is a technical change, changeMark is set to 1, and if the change is a non-technical change, changeMark is set to 0. If the change type is newly added, the changeType is set to add. If the change type is modified, changeType is set to modify. If the change type is deletion, the changeType is set to delete, and the original content, namely the content at the position in the last valid version data module, is completed at the original position.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the content alignment module 401 may repeatedly align each paragraph in the data module and instruct the marking module 402 to mark in the alteration data module when the alteration element is found until the last paragraph alignment is completed. After the comparison and marking process is performed on the whole changed data module, the changed data module with the changed information is generated.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the rendering module 403 may be configured to convert and render the changed data module into an electronic technology publication file having a PDF, WORD, or HTML format for the reader to read conveniently, upon receiving a reading instruction of the changed data module by the reader or a related person or upon saving the changed data module with the changed information. When presenting the electronic technology publication file, applying highlighting to the element with the change information in the electronic technology publication file based on the change information in the change data module to visually inform the reader that the element has been changed as compared to the previous version data module.

The presentation module 403 is configured to generate an electronic technical publication file presenting the indicia of the alteration based on the alteration data module. The presentation module 403 is configured to combine the content of the change data module with the change mark to generate an electronic technical publication file, according to one embodiment of the present invention. According to one embodiment of the invention, the change flags may include a highlight flag (e.g., a change type for "add" and "modify") and a delete flag (e.g., a change type for "delete"). The highlighted indicia may include one or more of the following: highlighting, changing color, underlining, etc. The delete markers may comprise delete lines.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when generating the electronic technology publication file, the presentation module 403 presents, for an element whose changeMark value is 1 and whose change type is "add" or "modify" (i.e., an element having an attribute value of "changeMark 1change type add" or an attribute value of "changeMark 1change type modify"), the modified content of the element in the electronic technology publication file, based on the change information of the change data module. Wherein a highlighting marker is applied to the altered content to enable the reader to know explicitly which content has been altered.

For example, referring again to the diagram 300-a in FIG. 3, when a paragraph is displayed with a paragraph tag of par-0004, the modified paragraph contents are directly displayed, and a highlight mark (e.g., highlight) is applied to the modified contents "If you find dam to a component" within the paragraph.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, for an element with a changeMark value of 1 and a change type of "delete" (i.e., an element with an attribute value of "1 changeMark" delete "), the rendering module 403 renders the original content of the element (i.e., the content in the last valid version data module) in the electronic technology publication file. Wherein the delete marker is applied to the original content so that the reader can clearly know which content was deleted.

According to yet another embodiment of the present invention, the rendering module 403 renders the modified content of an element having a changeMark value of 0 (i.e., an element having an attribute value of "changeMark ═ 0") in the electronic technical publication file. Wherein for an element with a changeMark value of 0, no change mark is used for marking. For the reader, the change of the technical content is obviously the most interesting content, so that the reader can be more focused on the change of the technical content when reading the data module to present the document without being distracted by the change of the non-technical content.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the presentation module 403 may be implemented on the same device as the store change data module or on a device local to the reader or interested person. That is, presentation module 403 may be located on the same device as content alignment module 401 and tagging module 402 or remotely from content alignment module 401 and tagging module 402.

FIG. 5 illustrates a flow diagram of a method 500 for automatically labeling a data module with a change mark, according to one embodiment of the invention.

In step 501, an instruction for automatically comparing the previous version data module with the modified data module is received. According to one embodiment of the invention, the instruction may be issued by the author upon completion of the change to the data module, through a user interface, or the like, or automatically upon saving of the change to the data module.

At step 502, in response to the instruction received at step 501, the previous version data module is automatically compared to the change data module to identify one or more technical or non-technical changes in the change data module for the previous version data module. According to one embodiment of the invention, step 502 may be performed on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis. For example, the XML language paragraph tag in the previous version data module is compared with the XML language paragraph tag in the modified data module, so as to automatically compare the content in the paragraph marked by the paragraph tag.

At step 503, change information is added to the element for which the change occurred in the change data module. According to one embodiment of the invention, the change information includes information indicating a change status and a change type. For example, referring to fig. 1, if an element < acronymTerm > FPI </acronymTerm > in the alteration data module is determined that the alteration status is a technical alteration and the alteration type is newly added, in the alteration data module, after addition of alteration information, the element is modified to < acronymTerm change mark ═ 1"change type ═ add" > FPI </acronymTerm. If the element < acronymTerm > FPI </acronymTerm > in the alteration data module is determined that the alteration status is a technical alteration and the alteration type is modification, then in the alteration data module, after adding the alteration flag, the element is modified to < acronymTerm change mark ═ 1"change type ═ modification" > FPI </acronymTerm >. If the element < acronymerm > FPI </acronymerm > is determined to change state to technology change and the change type is delete (i.e. not present in the change data module but present in the last valid version data module), then in the change data module the element is added directly as < acronym change mark ═ 1"change type ═ delete" > FPI </acronym.

Step 502 and 503 are repeated until all the paragraphs in the modified data module are compared. Optionally, at step 504, the electronic technology publication file may be presented based on the change data module with change information in response to the reader instruction or the change data module with change information being saved. In the electronic technology publication document, the change mark is marked while the specific content of the change data module is presented. According to one embodiment of the invention, change flags may include a highlight flag (e.g., change type for "add" and "modify") and a delete flag (e.g., change type for "delete"). The highlighted indicia may include one or more of the following: highlighting, changing color, underlining, etc. The delete markers may comprise delete lines.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, when an electronic technical publication file is displayed, for a technical change, displaying content after the change (modification and addition for the change type) or before the change (deletion for the change type) and applying a change mark to the changed content; for non-technical changes, the changed content is directly displayed without applying a change mark.

Therefore, in the technical scheme of the invention, the comparison is automatically carried out and the change mark is automatically added by setting the comparison rule aiming at the interactive electronic technical publication, so that the labor cost is greatly saved, and the change mark missing or wrong mark caused by human factors is avoided. In addition, the method also improves the change mark style and the mark granularity, so that a reader can more clearly know which contents are changed compared with the previous version.

FIG. 6 shows a block diagram 600 of an exemplary computing device, which is one example of a hardware device that may be applied to aspects of the present invention, according to one embodiment of the present invention. With reference to FIG. 6, a computing device 600, which is one example of a hardware device that may be employed in connection with aspects of the present invention, will now be described. The system 400 of FIG. 4 for automatically labeling data modules with change marks may be implemented on a computing device 500 according to one embodiment of the invention. Computing device 600 may be any machine that may be configured to implement processing and/or computing, and may be, but is not limited to, a workstation, a server, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, personal digital processing, a smart phone, an in-vehicle computer, or any combination thereof. Computing device 600 may include components that may be connected or in communication via one or more interfaces and a bus 602. For example, computing device 600 may include a bus 602, one or more processors 604, one or more input devices 606, and one or more output devices 608. The one or more processors 604 may be any type of processor and may include, but are not limited to, one or more general purpose processors and/or one or more special purpose processors (e.g., dedicated processing chips). Input device 606 may be any type of device capable of inputting information to a computing device and may include, but is not limited to, a mouse, a keyboard, a touch screen, a microphone, and/or a remote controller. Output device 608 may be any type of device capable of presenting information and may include, but is not limited to, a display, speakers, a video/audio output terminal, a vibrator, and/or a printer. Computing device 600 may also include or be connected to non-transitory storage device 610, which may be any storage device that is non-transitory and that enables data storage, and which may include, but is not limited to, a disk drive, an optical storage device, a solid-state memory, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, a hard disk, a tape, or any other magnetic medium, an optical disk or any other optical medium, a ROM (read only memory), a RAM (random access memory), a cache memory, and/or any memory chip or cartridge, and/or any other medium from which a computer can read data, instructions, and/or code. Non-transitory storage device 610 may be detached from the interface. The non-transitory storage device 610 may have data/instructions/code for implementing the above-described methods and steps. Computing device 600 may also include a communication device 612. The communication device 612 may be any type of device or system capable of enabling communication with internal apparatus and/or with a network and may include, but is not limited to, a modem, a network card, an infrared communication device, a wireless communication device, and/or a chipset, such as a bluetooth device, an IEEE 1302.11 device, a WiFi device, a WiMax device, a cellular communication device, and/or the like.

The bus 602 may include, but is not limited to, an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, a Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) bus, an enhanced ISA (eisa) bus, a Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) local bus, and a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus.

Computing device 600 may also include a working memory 614, which working memory 614 may be any type of working memory capable of storing instructions and/or data that facilitate the operation of processor 604 and may include, but is not limited to, random access memory and/or read only memory devices.

Software components may be located in the working memory 614, including, but not limited to, an operating system 616, one or more application programs 618, drivers, and/or other data and code. Instructions for implementing the above-described methods and steps of the invention may be included in the one or more applications 618, and the above-described method 500 of the invention may be implemented by the processor 604 reading and executing the instructions of the one or more applications 618.

It should also be appreciated that variations may be made according to particular needs. For example, customized hardware might also be used, and/or particular components might be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description speech, or any combination thereof. In addition, connections to other computing devices, such as network input/output devices and the like, may be employed. For example, some or all of the disclosed methods and apparatus can be implemented with logic and algorithms in accordance with the present invention through programming hardware (e.g., programmable logic circuitry including Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and/or Programmable Logic Arrays (PLAs)) having assembly language or hardware programming languages (e.g., VERILOG, VHDL, C + +).

Although the aspects of the present invention have been described so far with reference to the accompanying drawings, the above-described methods and apparatuses are merely examples, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to these aspects but only by the appended claims and equivalents thereof. Various components may be omitted or may be replaced with equivalent components. In addition, the steps may also be performed in a different order than described in the present invention. Further, the various components may be combined in various ways. It is also important that as technology develops that many of the described components can be replaced by equivalent components appearing later.

Claims (10)

1. A method for automatically labeling a data module in an interactive electronic technology publication with a change mark, comprising:

(a) receiving an instruction for comparing the previous life version data module with the changed data module;

(b) comparing, in response to the instructions, the last production version data module to the change data module on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis to identify a change in the change data module for the last production version data module, wherein the change comprises a technical change for technical content or a non-technical change for non-technical content;

(c) adding change information to the element in which the change occurred in the change data module, the change information including information indicating a change state and a change type, the change state indicating a technical change or a non-technical change, the change type indicating an addition, a modification, or a deletion;

(d) presenting an electronic technical publication file based on the change data module with change information, wherein in the electronic technical publication file the change indicia is applied for technical changes and not applied for non-technical changes.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the last version data module and the change data module are documents having an XML format and the electronic technology publication file is a document having a PDF or WORD format.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein comparing the previous version data module to the modified data module further comprises automatically comparing content in a paragraph marked by a paragraph tag based on an XML language paragraph tag in the previous version data module and an XML language paragraph tag in the modified data module.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) further comprises:

if the changed element is changed in technical state and the changed type is newly added, setting the attribute changeMark as 1 and the attribute changeType as add for the changed element;

if the changed element has a changed state of technology change and a change type of modification, setting an attribute changeMark of 1 and a changeType of modification for the changed element;

if the changed element has the changed state of technology change and the changed type of deletion, setting the changed element with the attribute changeMark of 1 and changeType of delete, and completing the original content in the last version data module;

if the change state of the changed element is not technical change, the attribute changeMark is set to 0 for the changed element.

5. The method of claim 1,

in the case that the change type is addition or modification, the change mark comprises a highlight mark;

in a case where the change type is delete, the change flag includes a delete flag.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein step (d) further comprises:

presenting, in the electronic technical publication file, for an element whose changeMark value is 1 and whose modification type is addition or modification, modified content of the element, and applying the highlighting mark to the modified content;

in the electronic technology publication file, for an element of which changeMark value is 1 and change type is deletion, presenting original content of the element, and applying a deletion marker to the original content;

in the electronic technical publication file, for an element with a changeMark value of 0, the modified content of the element is presented without applying any modification mark for marking.

7. A system for automatically labeling a data module in an interactive electronic technology publication with a change mark, comprising:

a content comparison module configured to compare the content of a previous version data module with the content of a change data module based on a received instruction to compare the content of the previous version data module with the content of the change data module to identify a change in the change data module for the previous version data module;

a marking module configured to add change information to the element in which the change occurred in the change data module, the change information including information indicating a change status indicating a technical change or a non-technical change and a change type indicating addition, modification, or deletion;

a presentation module configured to present an electronic technical publication file based on the change data module with change information, wherein in the electronic technical publication file the change flag is applied for technical changes and not applied for non-technical changes.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the tagging module is further configured to:

if the changed element is changed in technical state and the changed type is newly added, setting the attribute changeMark as 1 and the attribute changeType as add for the changed element;

if the changed element has a changed state of technology change and a change type of modification, setting an attribute changeMark of 1 and a changeType of modification for the changed element;

if the changed element is changed in technology and the change type is deleted, setting attribute changeMark 1 and changeType delete for the changed element, and completing the original content in the last version data module;

if the change state of the changed element is not technical change, the attribute changeMark is set to 0 for the changed element.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the presentation module is further configured to:

presenting, in the electronic technical publication file, for an element whose changeMark value is 1 and whose modification type is addition or modification, modified content of the element, and applying the highlighting mark to the modified content;

in the electronic technology publication file, for an element of which changeMark value is 1 and change type is deletion, presenting original content of the element, and applying a deletion marker to the original content;

in the electronic technical publication file, for an element with a changeMark value of 0, the modified content of the element is presented without applying any modification mark for marking.

10. A computing device for automatically labeling a data module in an interactive electronic technology publication with a change mark, comprising:

a processor;

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, are capable of performing the method of claims 1-6.

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