JP2006318110A - Electronic catalog management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that when there is any page that a user does not want to disclose in a system in which a plurality of page catalogs are managed by page units, and downloaded from the user, management is made complicated for the preparation and upload of a catalog excluding the pertinent page, and that when the pertinent page is not disclosed, the user is not notified of the reason. <P>SOLUTION: This electronic catalog management system is configured to attain uploading by applying the annotations of form output attributes to a non-disclosed page, and to, when any instruction is issued to the pertinent page, make it unnecessary to erase the pertinent page by targeting the output data of the page with the annotations of the form output attributes, and to make it possible to clarify the reason of non-disclosure to a user by describing it in the form output attributes, and to manage the disclosure/non-disclosure of each page, and to, for the page having the form output attributes, target the output data with the form output attributes in the non-disclosure of the page, and to target the page whose annotations are erased when disclosing of the page. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  According to the present invention, an electronic catalog composed of an uploaded structured document is managed in units of pages in accordance with a client instruction, and the electronic catalog of a specified page is uploaded in advance at the server when the electronic catalog is downloaded or combined and output. Annotate the form output attribute to any page of the electronic catalog, and download and combine output using the structured document that was output in place of each catalog page uploaded based on the annotation of the added form output attribute The present invention relates to an electronic catalog management system.

  In recent years, by uploading the electronic file of the structured document that is the source of the electronic catalog from each client to the Web server, it is managed as the page part of the electronic catalog on the server side, and the page parts divided after the upload are selected In addition, a function for downloading / combining and outputting the selected contents has been realized.

  Note that when attention is paid to annotations, as a conventional technique, there is one that applies annotations to print information (see, for example, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2). On the other hand, there is a technique of reading paper data with a scanner and cutting out an annotation from the read image data (see, for example, Patent Document 3).

However, none of these are technologies related to alternative form output using annotations between the server and the client, and do not fall under this case.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-168838 JP 2004-118509 A JP 2000-222394 A

  In the case of using the above-described conventional technology, by giving an upload instruction to an electronic catalog composed of a plurality of pages (hereinafter simply referred to as “catalog”), it is divided into pages and managed by the server. Since catalog pages (which are catalogs for each page divided into pages, simply referred to as “catalog pages” below) are subject to all catalog pages when combined output or download, each page is finally finalized. It is desirable to be data. If there is a page that is being created or a page that should not be released yet, it is necessary to take the following countermeasures, but each countermeasure has its own problems.

  (1) When creating a new catalog with deleted pages that should not be made public during creation and uploading it, it will be complicated to manage because multiple copy catalogs will be created until the final catalog is completed. turn into. In addition, since the deleted page is managed in the file on the server, the deleted page may not be continuously managed when the finally added catalog is uploaded and overwritten.

  (2) When the corresponding catalog page is made private by the server function after uploading, a page number or other missing number may occur, and the reason for non-publication or future countermeasures may not be clearly communicated to the client user.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems,
The first purpose is to add a form output attribute annotation to a page that should not be made public when uploading a catalog, so that when there is a download instruction for the corresponding catalog page, the form output attribute annotation is given. In the case of a catalog page that has been created, the form is output according to the form output attributes (form identifier, merge data, etc.), and the structured document that has been output in the form can be downloaded without exposing the corresponding catalog page that should not be published. An electronic catalog management system that provides a structured document in which the reason for non-disclosure is described by describing the reason for non-disclosure in the insertion data of the form output attribute is provided.

  The second object of the present invention is to describe the reason for non-disclosure etc. in the merge data of the form output attribute in the system realization of the first object, and also in the catalog combining process by selecting a plurality of catalog pages. An electronic catalog management system is provided that does not publish a catalog page that should not be made public, and makes a structured document that describes the reason for non-publication the target of catalog combination.

  According to a third object of the present invention, in the implementation of the system of the first / second object, by managing the disclosure / non-disclosure of each catalog page, the catalog page to which the annotation of the form output attribute is attached is managed. Thus, an electronic catalog management system for a structured document that is output in accordance with the form output attribute in the case of non-disclosure, and a catalog page in which the annotation of the form output attribute is deleted in the case of disclosure is provided.

In order to achieve the first object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, in the server, an uploading means for uploading a catalog having a page to which a form output attribute has been assigned in advance from a client, and the uploaded catalog are stored. Catalog page storing means, catalog page dividing means for dividing the stored catalog into page-by-page catalogs, catalog page storing means for storing page-divided catalog pages, and catalog page information for providing information about the catalog pages to the client Providing means; catalog page selecting means for arbitrarily selecting a desired catalog page from the client; download instruction means for instructing download of the selected catalog page; and downloading the catalog page when receiving the download instruction. And catalog page download means to be loaded,
An annotation detection unit that determines whether or not there is an annotation on the catalog page when receiving a download instruction from the client, an annotation analysis unit that analyzes the annotation content when the annotation is detected, and an annotation content in the annotation analysis unit Form output attribute determining means for determining whether or not a form output attribute, an annotation form output means for outputting a structured document in accordance with the corresponding attribute when it is determined as a form output attribute, and selecting a structured document that has been output as a catalog An alternative page download means for downloading as an alternative output of the page is provided.

  With the above configuration, when a catalog with form output attribute annotations is uploaded to a page that should not be published and there is a download instruction for the catalog page, the catalog page with form output attribute annotations is applicable It is possible to output a structured document according to the form output attribute, and to download the structured document that is output as a form. Also, by describing the reason for non-disclosure etc. in the merge data of the form output attribute, the catalog page that should not be made public It is possible to provide an electronic catalog management system that provides a structured document in which the reason for non-disclosure is described without being disclosed.

  Next, in order to achieve the second object, in the invention according to claim 2, in addition to the solution for the first object, a catalog page selecting unit for selecting a plurality of desired catalog pages from the client, and a selection A combined catalog creating means for creating a new combined catalog (hereinafter simply referred to as “combined catalog”) by combining a plurality of catalog pages created, a combined catalog providing means for providing the created combined catalog to the client, and a form When a catalog page having an annotation of output attribute is selected, an alternative page combining unit that uses the structured document output by the annotation form output unit instead of the corresponding catalog page as an element of the combined catalog is provided. It becomes the composition.

  With the above configuration, even in catalog merge processing by selecting multiple catalog pages, by inserting merge data of form output attribute describing the reason for non-disclosure, etc., without exposing the corresponding catalog page that should not be published In addition, it is possible to provide an electronic catalog management system that uses a structured document in which a reason for non-disclosure is described as an alternative page of a catalog page used for catalog combination processing.

  Next, in order to achieve the third object, in the invention according to claim 3, the catalog page group management means according to claim 1 or claim 2, and further, the registered catalog page Public / private setting means for setting public / non-public, public / non-public information acquisition means for acquiring public / non-public information of a catalog page when the selected catalog page has a form output attribute annotation, In the case of publishing, it has an alternative catalog page using means that uses a structured document by form output as an alternative page, and a form output attribute annotation deleting means that deletes form output attribute annotations if the selected catalog page is public. It becomes the composition.

  With the above configuration, managing the publication / non-publication of each catalog page, and for the catalog page annotated with the form output attribute, in the case of non-publication, the structured document output according to the form output attribute is targeted and made public In this case, it is possible to provide an electronic catalog management system for catalog pages from which form output attribute annotations have been deleted.

  In the electronic catalog management system according to claim 1, when a catalog with form output attribute annotations is uploaded to a page that should not be published, and there is a download instruction for the corresponding catalog page, the form output attribute annotations are displayed. It is possible to download the structured document that is output according to the attached form output attribute to the catalog page that has been granted, without publishing the catalog page that should not be published, and to the merge data of the form output attribute By describing the reason for non-disclosure, it becomes possible to download a structured document incorporating the reason for non-disclosure.

  Further, in the electronic catalog management system according to claim 2, even in the catalog combining process by selecting a plurality of catalog pages, the reason for non-disclosure should be described in the merge data of the form output attribute, and the corresponding should not be disclosed. It is possible to use a structured document in which the reason for non-disclosure is described without publishing the catalog page as an alternative page of the catalog page used for catalog combination.

  Further, in the electronic catalog management system according to claim 3, by managing the disclosure / non-disclosure of each catalog page, the form output attribute in the case of non-publication with respect to the catalog page annotated with the form output attribute. It is possible to target structured documents output according to the above, and target catalog pages from which annotations of form output attributes have been deleted.

  Further, in the electronic catalog management system according to claim 4, by performing processing related to annotation of form output attributes in advance at the time of uploading the catalog, speeding up of the download processing or the combination processing at the time of publishing / not publishing Is possible.

  Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a network configuration in which an instruction / operation is realized from a client having a Web browser to a Web server of the electronic catalog management system of the present invention.

  In the figure, reference numeral 101 denotes a local area network (LAN), which is a client personal computer (hereinafter referred to as “client PC”) 111, 112, 113, and a server personal computer that implements the text and file management system of the present invention ( Hereinafter, “server PC”) 121 is connected to this LAN.

  In this embodiment, the server PC 121 has a Web server function, and receives an instruction from the Web browser of the client PC 111, 112, 113, and performs a process of returning the processing result to the browser of the client PC instructing the processing result. Describe. However, in the present invention, the communication method between the server and the client is not particularly limited. In addition, the browser of the server PC may directly perform instruction processing for the electronic catalog management system of the present invention.

  The configuration of the client PCs 111, 112, and 113 is not particularly limited as long as it is a general PC that can be connected to the LAN 101 and has a function of operating a Web browser, and thus the description thereof is omitted.

  Next, FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration of the server PC 121 shown in FIG. 1 of the present embodiment.

  In the figure, reference numeral 201 denotes a video RAM (VRAM) which develops and stores characters and images displayed on the screen of the CRT display device 202. A bit move unit (BMU) 203 controls data transfer between memories or between a memory and each device. Reference numeral 204 denotes a keyboard having various keys relating to input, 205 denotes a pointing device (PD) used for pointing an icon or the like on the screen, 206 denotes a CPU, and a control program stored in a ROM 208 (present invention) In addition, a program for realizing the present invention, which will be described later, is also stored).

  Reference numeral 209 denotes a work area when the above-described programs are executed by the CPU 206, RAM used as a temporary save area during error processing, 210 a hard disk drive (HDD), and 211 a floppy disk drive (FDD). Each disk is used for storing application programs, data, databases, libraries, and the like, which will be described later. It is also used to save uploaded files. Reference numeral 212 denotes a network interface (NET-I / F), which performs data control and diagnosis on the network in order to transfer data to and from the client PCs 111, 112, and 113 via the network. Reference numeral 207 denotes an I / O bus (consisting of an address bus, a data bus, and a control bus) for connecting the units described above.

  In the above configuration, when the apparatus is turned on, the CPU 206 initializes the apparatus in accordance with the boot program stored in the ROM 208, loads the OS from the HDD 210, and then operates various applications.

  The apparatus according to the present embodiment is based on a general-purpose information processing apparatus (such as a personal computer). Therefore, the program is stored in a hard disk or the like. Of course, the program is stored in a ROM. The present invention is not limited by the storage medium.

  In this description, the file management of the database for storing data and the electronic catalog is expressed by one server, but it can be realized by using different information processing apparatuses such as a database server and a file sharing server. The present invention is not particularly limited.

[Example 1]
Next, referring to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the management of the catalog page uploaded from the client in the electronic catalog management system as the basis of the present invention, and the download process when the specified catalog page has the annotation of the form output attribute Examples relating to the above will be described.

  First, FIG. 3 relates to a management method of catalog data and divided catalog pages when the catalog data 301 is uploaded from the client 111 to the catalog management server 121.

  The catalog data 301 is catalog data composed of a total of 6 catalog pages, and the form output attribute annotation 302 is provided on the third page.

  When the catalog data 301 is uploaded to the catalog management server 121, the catalog data 301 itself and each catalog page divided into pages are managed using file IDs that are file identifiers. The file ID is a value that can be uniquely identified. In this example, the catalog data 301 is ID-100, the first catalog page is ID-101, the second and subsequent pages, ID-102, ID-103, ID-104. , ID-105 and ID-106.

  Since this process is a simple process in which pages are divided and managed using an identifier called a file ID including the divided catalog page file, the flowchart is omitted.

  Next, FIG. 4 shows processing when a download request is made from the client to the catalog page with the file ID “ID-103” in the situation where the upload described in the previous figure is completed. The form “CREATING” is pre-registered in the server, but the management method is not particularly limited as long as the form can be output.

  In the figure, when there is an instruction to download a file having the file ID “ID-103”, the file “ID-103” has an annotation of the form output attribute, so it is not the catalog page of ID-103. Structured documents that have been output as forms using form output attributes are subject to download.

  As the form output attribute, “CREATING” is specified as the attribute “FORM”, and this attribute indicates that the form used for output is “CREATING”.

  The attribute “DATE” corresponds to the <DATE> field of the form “CREATING”. Similarly, the attribute “MAILTO” corresponds to the <MAILTO> field, and the attribute “COMMENT” corresponds to the <COMMENT> field.

  By inserting and outputting the value of the corresponding attribute for each of the above fields, <DATE> = “2004/11/29”, <MAILTO> = “xyz @ abc ...”, <COMMENT> = “value verification” Output data (structured document) into which “middle” is inserted is created as a download target and downloaded to the client 111.

  FIG. 5 shows the result of the form output using the form output attribute instead of the catalog page itself when each catalog page for which the download instruction has been given has an annotation of the form output attribute for the uploaded catalog described above. The flowchart about the process used as a download object of a structured document is shown. Note that the file transfer process in the download shown in FIG. 4 is not particularly limited, and therefore the flowchart is omitted.

  In the figure, step S501 is a determination as to whether or not there is an annotation for the form output attribute on the target catalog page designated for download by the client. If there is no annotation, the process proceeds to step S502.

  In step S502, since the designated catalog page is downloaded, the selected catalog page is set as the download target and the process ends.

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S501 that there is an annotation for the form output attribute, the process proceeds to step S503.

  In step S503, form information is acquired from the form output attribute in the given annotation.

  In step S504, the form acquired in step S503 is selected. The form management method, selection method, and the like may be known methods and are not particularly limited in the present invention.

  Next, step S505 is processing for acquiring insertion data from the form output attribute in order to perform insertion processing for each field of the form selected in step S504. As for the association between the field in the form and the merge data in the form output attribute, the attribute name and the field name may be associated as described in FIG. 4, and the line number of the form output attribute and the field in the form You may associate with a number. There is no particular limitation. The point of the present invention is to obtain insertion data from the form output attribute.

  In step S506, the insertion data acquired in step S505 is inserted into the form selected in step S504. This treatment may be a known method and is not particularly limited in the present invention.

  In step S507, the structured document created by performing the insertion process in step S506 is set as a download target as an alternative page of the catalog page selected by the client, and the process ends.

  As described above with reference to the drawings, by using the first embodiment, when a catalog in which an annotation of the form output attribute is added to a page that should not be disclosed is uploaded and a download instruction for the catalog page is given, In the case of a catalog page with an annotation of form output attribute, it is possible to download a structured document that was output according to the attached form output attribute, without publishing a catalog page that should not be published, Further, by describing the reason for non-disclosure in the insertion data of the form output attribute, it becomes possible to download a structured document in which the reason for non-disclosure is described.

[Example 2]
Next, as a second embodiment, in the catalog combination processing instruction from the client in the electronic catalog management system, if there is an annotation of the form output attribute among a plurality of designated catalog pages, the structured document output in the form is displayed as the corresponding catalog page. An embodiment that is used as data to be catalog-linked instead of will be described.

  The catalog upload is the same as the process described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 6 shows an example in which the client is instructed to combine catalog pages with file IDs ID-102 and ID-103. From the client 111, each file ID of a catalog page to be cataloged is designated.

  In response to the above instruction, it is first determined whether each catalog page of the specified file ID has a form output attribute annotation. Since ID-102 has no annotation, it is entered as it is in the data for catalog combination processing. On the other hand, since ID-103 has an annotation of the form output attribute, form output processing (insertion processing) is performed according to the contents of the form output attribute. Then, the structured document created from the form output process is entered as data of the catalog combining process instead of the target catalog page.

  As described above, it is checked whether or not there is an annotation of the form output attribute for each selected catalog page, and the combination process is performed when all the data used for the catalog combination process is determined.

  An example of data obtained by downloading the result of the catalog combining process is a combined catalog 601. The first page is catalog data obtained by combining ID-102 and the second page is a structured document generated from the form output attribute assigned to ID-103.

  FIG. 7 shows the form using the form output attribute instead of the catalog page itself when the uploaded catalog described above has an annotation of the form output attribute for each catalog page for which the catalog merge instruction has been given. 6 is a flowchart for processing a structured document generated from an output as data for catalog combination processing. It should be noted that the file transfer process in the download shown in FIG. 6 is not particularly stated, so the flowchart is omitted.

  Also, in the drawing, description of parts similar to the flowchart of FIG. 5 is omitted.

  Step S701 is loop initialization processing for performing processing on each catalog page to be catalog combined selected by the client. The number of selected pages is N, and the initial value of the loop variable i is set to 1. Steps S702 to S708 are similar to steps S501 to S507 shown in FIG. 5, but will not be described in detail because there is a difference that the download target is a catalog combination target with respect to the i-th catalog page.

  Step S709 is a loop end determination process. It is determined whether or not the current catalog page is the Nth. If it is not the Nth, the process proceeds to step S710, the loop variable is incremented by 1, and the process returns to step S702. On the other hand, if it is Nth, it is determined that the loop processing has been completed for all selected catalog pages, and the process proceeds to step S711.

  In step S711, processing for combining the data to be combined with the catalog determined by the loop processing is performed, and the entire processing is terminated.

  As described above, with the use of the second embodiment, even in catalog combining processing by selecting a plurality of catalog pages, it is disclosed only by describing the reason for non-disclosure etc. in the merge data of the form output attribute. It is possible to use a structured document in which a reason for non-disclosure is described without publishing a catalog page that should not be used as a substitute page for a catalog page used for catalog combination.

[Example 3]
Next, as a third embodiment, by managing the disclosure / non-disclosure of each catalog page, a structured document that is output according to the form output attribute in the case of non-publication with respect to the catalog page with the annotation of the form output attribute. An example will be described in which the catalog page from which the annotation of the form output attribute has been deleted can be targeted in the case of publication.

  First, FIG. 8 is an example in which a catalog and a catalog page in a server for explaining the third embodiment are managed by a database.

  In the figure, the “catalog management table” in the table shows an example in which the file ID of each catalog and catalog page shown in FIG. 3 is managed. “File ID” indicates the file ID of each target catalog and catalog page. “File” indicates an outline of the file, and may include a file name, for example. “Public / non-public” indicates whether the file with each file ID is open / closed to the client. The public / private setting may be a known method and is not particularly limited.

  In this table, the file ID “ID-103” has a setting of “private”, and in the case of the setting of “private”, the annotation of the form output attribute shown in the first and second embodiments is used. A corresponding form is output, and the output structured document is used as an alternative page.

  FIG. 9 shows a flowchart when a download instruction is given to the server managing each catalog page using the public / private setting for the uploaded catalog described above. is there. Although FIG. 9 shows the processing for the download instruction, the same applies to the catalog combination instruction as can be easily inferred from the relationship of FIGS. For this reason, the description of the flowchart for catalog combination is omitted.

  In the figure, S901 checks whether the target catalog page is open / closed. If it is not disclosed, the process proceeds to step S902. On the other hand, in the case of disclosure, the process proceeds to step S909.

  In step S902, it is determined whether the target catalog page has a form output attribute annotation. If not, the process proceeds to step S903, and if present, the process proceeds to step S904.

  In step S903, the file to be downloaded is treated as having no target because it is private and has no annotations, and the process ends.

  On the other hand, steps S904 to S908 are the same as steps S503 to 507 in FIG.

  On the other hand, in step S909, it is determined whether or not an annotation of the form output attribute exists as in step S902. If there is an annotation, the process proceeds to step S910, and if not, the process proceeds to step S911. In step S910, since the catalog page is open and the target catalog page itself is a download target, the form output attribute annotation is deleted as unnecessary. It should be noted that the deletion shown here is performed directly from the catalog page itself, since the annotation information of the form output attribute disappears from the next time, so that the copy made for download is performed.

  In step S911, the form output attribute is determined in step S909, and if the form output attribute is present, the deleted catalog page is set as the download target.

  As described above, with the use of the third embodiment, by using together with the function for managing the disclosure / non-disclosure of each catalog page, the catalog page with the annotation of the form output attribute is used. In the case of non-disclosure, it is possible to target a structured document output according to the form output attribute, and in the case of disclosure, it is possible to target a catalog page from which the annotation of the form output attribute has been deleted.

[Example 4]
Next, in the fourth embodiment, information related to the annotation of the form output attribute is registered in the database in advance at the time of uploading the catalog, and the processing for deleting the annotation is performed. An embodiment capable of speeding up the download process or the combination process will be described.

  FIG. 10 shows an example in which, when the catalog data shown in FIG. 3 is uploaded, the annotation information of the form output attribute is extracted and registered in the database, and the corresponding annotation is deleted from the catalog page. .

  Compared with FIG. 3, the annotation of the form output attribute disappears from ID-103, indicating that the information is registered in the “catalog management table” in the table.

  In the table, each attribute given as an example is registered below “form output attribute annotation information”.

  For example, “CREATING” is managed as the FORM value, “2004/11/29” is managed as the DATE value, and the like.

  Note that the “form output attribute annotation information” in the “catalog management table” is merely an example, and for example, it may be managed in another related table. The present invention is not particularly limited as long as the form output attribute can be managed.

  By performing the above management, the extraction and deletion of the form output attribute is processed in advance at the time of uploading. Therefore, when there is an instruction for downloading or catalog combination, the processing of S904, S906, and S910 described in FIG. 9 is performed. Processing can be omitted.

  Note that the description of the flowchart is omitted because it can be easily inferred from the respective embodiments.

  As described above, by using the fourth embodiment, by performing processing related to annotation of the form output attribute in advance at the time of uploading the catalog, download processing or It is possible to speed up the joining process.

Network configuration diagram of the entire embodiment of the present invention Configuration diagram of server PC in the whole embodiment of the present invention The figure which shows the example of upload of the catalog data from the client in Example 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the example in the download instruction | indication from the client in the actual example 1 of this invention The flowchart in Example 1 of this invention The figure which shows the example in the catalog combination instruction | indication from the client in the actual example 2 of this invention Flowchart in Embodiment 2 of the present invention The figure which shows the catalog management table in Example 3 of this invention. Flowchart in Embodiment 3 of the present invention The figure which shows the catalog management table in Example 4 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

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113 Client PC
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Claims (5)

A server / client system via a web network,
In the server, the uploading means for uploading the catalog in the structured document format from the client, the catalog storing means for storing the uploaded catalog, the catalog page dividing means for dividing the stored catalog into catalogs in page units, and the page division. Catalog page storage means for storing catalog pages, which are catalogs for each page, catalog page information providing means for providing the catalog page information to the client, and catalog page selection for arbitrarily selecting a desired catalog page from the client Means, a download instruction means for instructing download of the selected catalog page, and a catalog page download means for downloading the catalog page to the client when receiving the download instruction. ,
For each instruction from the client, the catalog and catalog page uploaded from the client are managed, and when there is a download instruction by arbitrarily selecting a catalog page, electronic download via the Web that provides download of the selected catalog page In the catalog management system,
Furthermore, for catalogs that can be annotated on a page-by-page basis, when a download instruction is received from a client, an annotation detection means that determines whether or not there is an annotation on the catalog page, and an annotation when an annotation is detected An annotation analysis unit that analyzes the content, a form output attribute determination unit that determines whether or not the annotation content is a form output attribute in the annotation analysis unit, and a structured document according to the content of the corresponding attribute when the form output attribute is determined By providing an annotation form output means for outputting the form and an alternative page download means for downloading the structured document output as the form as an alternative output of the selected catalog page,
When the client creates a catalog with annotations for the form output attribute in advance and gives an upload instruction, the server registers the uploaded catalog page data and receives the catalog page download instruction on the server. In the case of a catalog page to which an annotation is attached, an electronic catalog management system that causes a structured document output by an annotation of an attached form output attribute to be downloaded as substitute data for the designated catalog page. The electronic catalog management system according to claim 1,
Further, in the server, a catalog page selecting means for selecting a plurality of desired catalog pages from a client, a combined catalog creating means for creating a new combined catalog by combining a plurality of selected catalog pages, and the created combined catalog as a client. If a catalog page with annotations of form output attributes is selected and the combined catalog providing means provided to the structured catalog, the structured document output by the annotation form output means is used instead of the corresponding catalog page as an element of the combined catalog. By including an alternative page combining means to be incorporated,
When a client creates a catalog with annotations for form output attributes and gives an upload instruction, the server registers the uploaded catalog page data and receives a combined catalog creation instruction that selects multiple catalog pages. When a catalog page is annotated with form output attributes, a structured document that is output based on the form output attribute is used as a substitute page for the specified catalog page in the combined catalog. Electronic catalog management system. 3. The electronic catalog management system according to claim 1, further comprising: public / private setting means for setting public / non-public to a registered catalog page, and the selected catalog page has a form output attribute annotation. In this case, use public / private information acquisition means for acquiring public / non-public information of catalog pages, and use of alternative catalog pages that use structured documents by form output as alternative catalog pages if the selected catalog page is private And a form output attribute annotation deleting means for deleting the annotation of the form output attribute in the case of publishing,
If the catalog page selected by the client has an annotation for the form output attribute and is not published, the structured document that was output in the form is used as an alternative catalog page. If the catalog page is published, the annotation data for the assigned form output attribute is automatically used. An electronic catalog management system characterized by using catalog pages that have been deleted.   In the electronic catalog management system according to claim 3, the annotation of the form output attribute is extracted and registered in the database when the page is divided at the time of uploading, and at the same time, the corresponding catalog page is made non-existent by deleting the annotation from the catalog page. In the case of publishing, use the structured document that has obtained form output attribute information from the catalog page database and output the form, and in the case of publishing, use the catalog page from which the form output attribute annotation has already been deleted. An electronic catalog management system that speeds up download or catalog merge processing.   5. The electronic catalog management system according to claim 1, wherein the form output attribute includes at least an identifier of a form to be output and insertion data.