JPH07262192A - Inspection device for structured document - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a structured document inspection device capable of efficiently and easily inspecting document structure and attribute. CONSTITUTION:A document structure inspection part 50 inspects the document structure by referring to the managing information of a structure information managing part 60, and informs a document access part 70 of an inspection result. The document access part 70 makes access the document constituent of the document structure developed on memory 40, and delivers the document constituent to an attribute acquiring part 80. The attribute acquiring part 80 takes out the attribute that belongs to it, and delivers it to an attribute inspection part 90. The attribute inspection part 90 requests attribute information to an attribute information access part 100, and inspects the attribute based on the attribute information and the attribute delivered from the attribute acquiring part 80.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a structured document inspection device for inspecting at least document attributes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various attributes in a document file are inspected for each attribute category such as various attribute forms (types), value ranges, and inspection methods. The inspection of such an attribute is performed by, for example, ODA (Open Document Architec).
ture: defined in ISO 8613) and can be applied to structured documents such as documents.

As is well known, a structured document has a hierarchical structure and a structure in which a nested structure is added, and the document contents also include text, figures, numerical values and the like. These document contents include various attributes. For example, there are a character attribute, a straight line attribute, and the like, and even if the same straight line exists, the attribute differs depending on whether the straight line exists in the text body or the figure frame in the text body. Such attributes are distributed and exist in the hierarchized document.

Whether or not the structure and various attributes of such a structured document are appropriate and the validity thereof is checked by activating a structured document editor according to the format of the target structured document. Then, the document is opened and executed.

As a device for inspecting attributes, there is a tree scanning device described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-92836.

[0006]

However, in the above-described conventional method of inspecting the structure and attributes of a structured document, that is, the method of inspecting attributes by a structured document editor, there are various inspection modes when a structured document is opened. Also, since it has a hierarchical structure, the inspection points are dispersed, which makes development and maintenance of a structured document editor difficult and inefficient. In addition, even if a structured document is opened with the structured document editor, there is no guarantee that the detailed attributes and the structural information are consistent, and the document may end abnormally during subsequent document editing. Also, if a large number of inspections are performed on the structured document editor body each time it is started, this time will take a long time to start, which is not practical either.

If individual inspection mechanisms are incorporated around the program for further inspection, the outlook of the program becomes extremely poor, which tends to cause defects in the program and inefficient response to version upgrades. Is.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a structured document inspection device capable of efficiently and easily inspecting a document structure and attributes.

[0009]

According to the present invention, there is provided a document editing means for editing a structured document including an object constituting a document structure, an attribute element attached to the object, content system information and its own attribute element. Independently of, there is a checking means for checking the document structure and the attribute elements associated with the object and the unique attribute elements.

[0010]

According to the present invention, a document editing means such as a structured document editor for editing a structured document including an object constituting a document structure, an attribute element attached to the object, content system information and an attribute element unique to the content system information. Inspecting means independent from the inspecting means inspects the document structure, the attribute element attached to the object, and the unique attribute element.

Therefore, even when the structured document editor is not functioning (that is, without the editor),
You can inspect the document structure and attributes of structured documents.

[0012]

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

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of a structured document inspection apparatus according to the present invention.

Prior to the explanation of the functional block diagram of FIG.
A structured document which is a processing target of the apparatus of this embodiment will be described. This structured document is configured to include at least an object that constitutes the document structure and an attribute element attached to this object, and content system information and its unique attribute element. The objects include, for example, an object representing a chapter, a section, an item, etc. and an object (basic logical object) referencing the content system part. The content system information includes texts, figures, numerical values, and other document structures, that is, nested structures. As such a structured document, the OD described above is used.
There is a structured document conforming to A.

In FIG. 1, the structured document file reading unit 10 reads the structured document file for each document constituent element and transfers it to the information inspection unit 20 and the file internal position correspondence management unit 30.

The information inspecting unit 20 develops the delivered document constituent elements in the memory 40 and delivers the structure information to the document structure inspecting unit 50.

The file internal position correspondence management unit 30 determines the position inside the file of the passed document constituent element (hereinafter,
File internal position) and identification information for identifying the document constituent element (hereinafter referred to as document constituent element ID)
Corresponds and holds and manages.

The document structure inspection unit 50 inspects the document structure by referring to the management information of the structure information management unit 60 which manages the information for the consistency inspection of the specific structure, and the inspection result is the document access unit. Notify 70.

The document access unit 70 traces the document structure expanded in the memory 40, accesses the document constituent elements, and passes the document constituent elements to the attribute acquisition unit 80.

The attribute acquisition unit 80 extracts the attributes attached to the document constituent elements passed thereto, and the attribute inspection unit 9
Pass to 0.

The attribute inspecting section 90 includes an attribute information access section 1
00 is requested for attribute information, and the attribute is inspected based on this attribute information and the attribute passed from the attribute acquisition unit 80.

The attribute access unit 100 is the attribute information management unit 1.
The attribute information is acquired by accessing 10 and passed to the attribute inspection unit 90.

The attribute information management unit 110 manages attribute information such as inspection styles of various attributes, attribute types, attribute value ranges, output names, etc., which are stored in the storage unit 120, and from the attribute information access unit 100. The attribute information is read and returned in response to the request.

The inspection result information processing unit 130 is the attribute inspection unit 9
The inspection result information of 0 is processed into an appropriate output result and passed to the inspection result output unit 140. An output result is output from the inspection result output unit 140.

In this structure, the document structure inspection unit 50 and the structure information management unit 60 inspect the structure information, and the attribute acquisition unit 80, the attribute inspection unit 90, and the inspection result information processing unit 13 are executed.
0 and the inspection result output unit 140 are inspecting attributes. The attribute information management unit 110 and the storage unit 120 form an attribute information database. That is, for each attribute format, the inspection format and the inspection content, that is, the inspection data such as the attribute type, the attribute value range, and the output name are categorized, packaged, and further stored in a database.

Next, the structure and attribute inspection processing of the structured document of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

It should be noted that the structured document editor is not involved in this embodiment at all. That is, there is no need to launch the structured document editor.

As shown in FIG. 2, the structured document file reading unit 10 reads the preamble part (the document outline of the head part) of the structured document in the structured document file (step 101), and the preamble part is read. To the information inspection unit 20 and the file internal position correspondence management unit 30.

The information inspecting section 20 confirms the predetermined description format and order of the preamble section, the version, the creator, etc. (step 102) and judges whether or not it is normal (step 103).

In the normal case, the file internal position correspondence management unit 30 stores the document structure unit, that is, the above-mentioned file position information of the document constituent element and the document constituent element ID in association with each other, and the information inspection unit 20 causes the document structure The copies are sequentially generated and expanded in the memory 40 (step 104).

Next, the information inspecting section 20 determines whether or not all the document structures have been generated, that is, whether or not all the document structures have been inspected (step 105).

Here, if the inspection is not completed up to the end of the file, the document structure inspection unit 50 inspects whether the structure is permissible according to the document structure portion (step 106), and the inspection result is It is determined whether or not it is normal (step 107), and if it is normal, the fact is notified to the document access unit 70.

The document access unit 70 traces the document structure developed in the memory 40, accesses the document constituent elements, and passes the document constituent elements to the attribute acquisition unit 80. When the attribute acquisition unit 80 receives a document component holding an attribute, the attribute acquisition unit 80 acquires an identifier indicating the attribute (hereinafter referred to as an attribute identifier) (step 108), and the attribute inspection unit 90 receives this attribute identifier. hand over.

Based on the received attribute identifier, the attribute inspection unit 90 acquires attribute information of the inspection target such as a value of the attribute category, style, and attribute type (step 109). Information is passed to the attribute information access unit 100 to request attribute information.

Attribute information access unit 1 responding to this request
00 inquires the above-mentioned attribute information database for the reference attribute information (that is, inspection style, attribute type, attribute value, etc.) according to the passed attribute information of the inspection object (step 110). The inquiry result is returned to the attribute inspection unit 90.

The attribute inspecting section 90 includes an attribute information access section 1
The attribute of the inspection target is inspected based on the attribute information which is the inquiry result from 00 and the acquired attribute information of the inspection target. That is, it is determined whether or not the attribute to be inspected is within the range of allowable values included in the attribute information from the attribute information database (step 111).

If it is within the allowable value, the above step 1
05 and later are executed.

If the preamble portion is abnormal in step 103, the inspection result is abnormal in step 107, or the attribute exceeds the allowable value in step 111, the attribute inspection portion 90 can continue attribute inspection. It is determined whether or not (step 112). If it is not possible to continue, the process ends abnormally (step 113). On the other hand, if it is possible to continue, the inspection is continued and the inspection result is output to the inspection result information processing unit 130.

The inspection result information processing unit 130 processes the inspection result information so that it can be recognized (step 114). The processed inspection result is stored in the inspection result output unit 140 and is output for each constant condition (step 115).

After completing step 115, the process returns to step 105.

In step 105, when the end of the file is inspected, the process is ended.

In the above process, step 1
Steps 04 to 108 are processes for inspecting structural information,
Steps 109 to 115 are the processing for checking the attribute information.

Further, as described above, inspections are roughly classified into structure inspections and attribute inspections. In any case, if there is an abnormality, even if the subsequent inspection is affected, the audit is continued as long as continuous inspection is possible and the inspection result is presented. As a part of the inspection result, the position inside the structured document file to be inspected is also presented. For example, the result of which line in the structured document file is abnormal is presented.

Since the structured document inspection apparatus shown in FIG. 1 is independent of the structured document editor, a structure created by various document processing applications for the same document format other than the structured document editor. The structured document inspection apparatus shown in FIG. 1 can inspect the structured document, and the structured document inspection apparatus shown in FIG. 1 can inspect the structured document before the application reads the structured document. This allows the quality of the structured document to be maintained at a constant level.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the structured document inspection apparatus can inspect the structured document without the structured document editor. Further, in the structured document inspection device, since the inspection method and the inspection data suitable for the inspection format are packaged, it is easy and efficient to deal with the structured document inspection device during the development and the subsequent maintenance. . Further, even when the attribute specification is changed, it is only necessary to update the attribute information database, and it is possible to promptly deal with the attribute change.

[0046]

As described above, according to the present invention, a structured document including an object constituting a document structure, an attribute element attached to this object, content system information and its unique attribute element is edited. Since the checking means independent of the document editing means such as the structured document editor checks the document structure, the attribute element attached to the object and the unique attribute element, the structured document editor. Independently of, the document structure and attributes of structured documents can be examined.

Therefore, there is an advantage that it is possible to provide a structured document inspection device that inspects the document structure and attributes efficiently and easily.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of a structured document inspection device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a structure and attribute inspection processing operation of a structured document according to the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Structured document file reading unit, 20 ... Information inspection unit,
30 ... File internal position correspondence management unit, 40 ... Memory, 5
0 ... Document structure inspection unit, 60 ... Structure information management unit, 70 ... Document access unit, 80 ... Attribute acquisition unit, 90 ... Attribute inspection unit,
100 ... Attribute information access unit, 110 ... Attribute information management unit, 120 ... Storage unit, 130 ... Inspection result information processing unit, 1
40 ... Inspection result output unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document editing means for editing a structured document including an object constituting a document structure and an attribute element attached to the object, and content system information and its unique attribute element, independently of the document editing means. An apparatus for inspecting a structured document, comprising an inspection means for inspecting a structure, an attribute element attached to the object, and a unique attribute element.