JP2002230209A - Referring method of tagged language document, and describing method of document - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a referring method and a document describing method effectively realizing the copyright protection of a contents preparing person of a document described in a tagged language. SOLUTION: A browser for performing a display process of the document 8 checks a tag to be referred of referring object contents before displaying contents described in a reference tag, and, when access and citation are to be charged, displays the fact and informs a user (a page preparing person 2 or a page accessing person 3) of the fact. When the page preparing person 2 or the page accessing person 3 understands the charged access and citation of the contents, the browser transmits via a network (the Internet) information for paying fee using a conventional online payment system comprising an accounting server 9 (arrows AR1 and AR2). Then, the browser displays reference contents.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an HTML (Hyper
Text Markup Language) and XML (eXtensibleMarkup)
Language), a method of referring to contents included in a document described in a tagging language (structured language) (hereinafter, referred to as a “tagging language document”), a description method of the tagging language document, and a The present invention relates to a document creation support device that supports creation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A document posted on a website on the Internet is a tagging language document described in a tagging language, and by using the tagging language document,
It is possible to easily link to another document or refer to the content of another document.

[0003]

Therefore, there is a problem that the content in the created document can be easily quoted without permission, and there is a problem of how to protect the copyright of the content creator. was there. If the content of the reference destination is an HTML document, a link using an anchor tag (<AHREF = "">) is used. If an image is an image, the image is attached using an image tag (<IMG SRC = "">). Must be specified separately. Therefore, a tool that allows an HTML document creator to easily create an HTML document without being aware of the distinction has been desired.

The present invention has been made in view of this point, and a reference processing method and a description method of a tagging language document that effectively realize the copyright protection of a creator of a document described in a tagging language. The primary purpose is to provide
It is a second object of the present invention to provide a document creation support device that facilitates creation of a tagged language document that effectively realizes such copyright protection.

[0005]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a document element, structure,
In a reference processing method of a tagging language document described by a tag which is a structure descriptor used to represent a shaping method, a link destination, and the like, all of contents of other tagging language documents are described in accordance with the description of the tag. Alternatively, when using a part of the document, if the other tagging language document contains information indicating that the use of the content of the other tagging language document is charged, a fee is charged to the creator of the content. And displaying the content in accordance with the content after the fee is paid.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document described by a tag which is a structure descriptor used to represent an element, a structure, a shaping method, a link destination, and the like of the document. In a method of describing a document in a case where the document includes content that may be used by a person other than the person, a tag for controlling a method of using the content is described in the document.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for supporting creation of a tagged language document described by a tag which is a structure descriptor used to represent an element, a structure, a shaping method, a link destination, etc. of a document. Display means for displaying a document being created and content to be referred to, and content to be referred to by the document being created displayed on the display means, corresponding to an operation specified by an operator who creates the document. Reference tag description means for writing a reference tag for instructing reference to the content in the document being created; and content to be used, which is included in the document being created and displayed on the display means. First referenced tag description means for describing a referenced tag in the document being created in response to an operation specified by the operator, and the reference tag is described in the document being created. In this case, the referenced tag corresponding to the reference tag is described based on the description of the referenced tag corresponding to the content pointed to by the reference tag, in response to the operation of specifying the reference tag by the operator. And a second referenced tag description means.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a reference processing method and a document description method according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a page creator 1 creates a first markup language document 7 containing a content 5 and a page creator 2
Shows a state in which a second markup language document 8 including a description referring to (quoting) the content 5 of the first markup language document 7 is created.

The reference tag described in the second markup language document 8 to refer to the contents 5 of the first markup language document 7 is <REF SRC = "a">. Here, “a” is the name of the reference destination content, and the reference tag can include the names of a plurality of reference destination contents.

[0010] The contents 5 of the first markup language document 7 are given the following referenced tags in consideration of the possibility that the contents 5 are used by a third party. <PREF NAME = "a" PERMIT = "true" PART = "false" MONEY = "
1.00 $ "> (referred content) </ PREF> where NAME is the name specified by the reference tag, PER
MIT is a parameter indicating whether the quotation is possible (true) or not (false), and PART is a quotation possible (true).
e), parameter indicating “false”, MONE
Y is a parameter indicating a billing amount.

In FIG. 1, arrows AR (lines with arrows) AR
10, AR11 and AR12 indicate the relationship of browsing or citation (use) of the content, and the content 5 of the first markup language document 7 is browsed or read by the page creator 2, the page viewers 3 and 4. Quoted.

Before displaying the content described in the reference tag, the browser that performs the display processing of the document shown in FIG. 1 or the first markup language document 7 checks the referenced tag of the reference destination content, When the reading / quoting is charged, the fact is displayed and the user, that is, the page creator 2 is displayed.
Alternatively, the page viewer 3 is notified. When the page creator 2 or the page viewer 3 understands the browsing / quoting of the paid content, the browser executes the payment using the conventional online payment system including the charging server 9 and the like. Is transmitted via the network (Internet) (arrows AR1 and AR2).
Thereby, payment of the fee to the page creator 1 is substantially executed, and then the browser executes the display of the reference content.

The page viewer 4 is browsing the document 8 created by the page creator 2, and in this case also, the browser operates in the same manner as the page viewer 3 and payment of the fee is executed ( Arrow line AR3). Therefore, the total of the fees paid by the page creator 2 and the page viewers 3 and 4 is paid from the charging server 9 to the page creator 1 (arrow AR4).

As described above, by executing the payment of the fee before actually displaying the referred content, the protection of the copyright holder can be made effective.

FIG. 2 shows that the page creator 2
In this example, the reference tag of the content 8 is described in the document 17 including the content 8 in consideration of the possibility that the content (document) 8 created by citing the content is used by a third party. In this case, as described below, the referenced tag is described so as to include the reference tag as the internal content. In the following referenced tag, the parameter PART is omitted. In this case, PERMIT = “true”
Therefore, it is indicated that only use as a whole is permitted. <PREF NAME = "b" PERMIT = "true" MONEY = "0.50 $"><REF SRC = "a"></PREF>

In the example shown in FIG. 2, the page viewer 4
When the browsing indicated by the arrow AR13 is executed, the usage fee (1.00 $) for the page creator 1 and the usage fee (0.50 $) for the page creator 2 in advance are used ( 1.50 ＄) (AR3a). When this payment is made, the page creator 1 receives 1.0
0 $ is paid and 0.5 $ to page creator 2
Will be paid. In consideration of the secondary use as shown in this example, the reference tag can also specify the usage method after the quote (whether or not for commercial use, the upper limit of the fee amount, etc.) as an attribute. .

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a document creation support device for facilitating creation of the above-mentioned tagged language document. This apparatus includes a control unit 21 having a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and the like, and a display unit 22 for displaying documents and images.
And a storage unit 23 for storing programs, image information, etc.
And an input unit 24 for a document creator (operator) to input a document, specify reference content, and the like, and a modem 25 for connecting to the Internet.

When citing a content in another document, the document creator instructs display of the content.
On the other hand, the control unit 21 examines the referenced tag of the document including the content to be quoted, and if payment is required, executes the payment by the online payment system via the Internet. Then, the content is displayed. When the document creator selects all or part of the displayed content and gives an instruction to quote the selected portion via the input unit 24, the control unit 21 writes the above-described reference tag in the document being created.

Further, when a document currently being created is displayed on the display unit 22 and an operation of designating a necessary portion of the content which may be used by a third party by the document creator is performed,
The control unit 21 describes the referenced tag in the document being created.
Further, when a reference tag is described in the document being created, the reference tag (<REF SRC = "in the content 8 in FIG. 2)
When the document creator designates “a”>), the control unit 21 causes the referenced tag (<PREF NAME = "a” PERMIT) corresponding to the content (content 5) indicated by the reference tag.
= "true" PART = "false" MONEY = "1.00 $">) based on the description of the referenced tag (<REF SRC = "a">)
PREF NAME = "b" PERMIT = "true" MONEY = "0.50 $"> and </ PR
EF>).

By using the document creation support apparatus of FIG. 3, a tagging language document for implementing the reference processing method described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 can be easily created. In the present embodiment, the control unit 11 constitutes a reference tag description unit, a first referenced tag description unit, and a second referenced tag description unit.

[0021]

As described in detail above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, when all or a part of the content of another document is used according to the description of the tag, the content is included in the other document. If the quote of the content includes information that the content is charged, the process of paying the creator of the content is executed, and then the display according to the content of the content is executed. The protection of the author of such content can be made effective.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the tag for controlling the method of using the content which may be used by a person other than the creator is described in the document.
It is possible to easily specify restrictions on secondary use of the content, whether or not charging is possible, etc., to ensure that copyright protection is effective, and to promote use according to the intention of the author (content creator). Can be.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the reference of the content to be referred to, which is displayed on the display means, is instructed to correspond to the operation specified by the operator. Reference tags are described in the document being created. In addition, the referenced tag is described in the document being created in response to the operation of specifying the content to be referenced from another document displayed on the display unit by the operator. Further, when a reference tag is described in the document being created, in response to an operation of specifying the reference tag by the operator, based on the description of the referenced tag corresponding to the content specified by the reference tag, A referenced tag corresponding to the reference tag is described. Therefore, it is possible to easily create a tagged language document that effectively protects the author, and reduce the burden on the content creator.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a reference processing method and a document description method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a modification of the example shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a document creation support device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1, 2 page creator 3, 4 page viewer 5, 6 content 7, 8, 17 tagging language document 9 accounting server 21 control unit (reference tag description means, first referenced tag description means, second Reference tag description unit) 22 display unit (display unit) 23 storage unit 24 input unit 25 modem

Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification symbol FI Theme coat II (reference) G06F 15/00 310 G06F 15/00 310A 17/21 570 17/21 570D

Claims (3)

[Claims] Claims 1. Document elements, structure, formatting method,
In a reference processing method of a tagging language document described by a tag which is a structure descriptor used to represent a link destination or the like, all or part of the content of another tagging language document according to the description of the tag Paying a fee to the creator of the content when the other tagging language document includes information indicating that the use of the content of the other tagging language document is charged. And performing a display in accordance with the content of the content after the fee is paid. 2. The document element, structure, formatting method,
A method of describing a document described by a tag that is a structural descriptor used to represent a link destination, etc., in a case where the document includes content that may be used by a person other than the creator. The document description method according to claim 1, wherein a tag for controlling a method of using the content is described in the document. 3. Document elements, structure, formatting method,
A tagging language document creation support device described by a tag which is a structural descriptor used to represent a link destination or the like; a display unit for displaying a document being created and contents to be referred to; The reference to describe the content to be referred to in the created document in response to an operation specified by an operator who creates the document, and to describe a reference tag instructing to refer to the content in the created document. Tag description means, and, in response to an operation in which an operator specifies content to be used, which is displayed on the display means and is included in the document being created, assigns a referenced tag to the document being created. First referenced tag description means to be described, and when the reference tag is described in the document being created, the reference tag is designated in response to an operation of designating the reference tag by an operator. And a second tag description means for describing the referenced tag corresponding to the reference tag based on the description of the referenced tag corresponding to the content to be created. apparatus.