JPH1153361A - Associating method between document and additional information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily know the reference to and the correspondence relation among a text document, a comment list and the comment details by displaying simultaneously a data list and its details for the relevant parts of a document corresponding to the chapter and paragraph which are selected out of a table of contents by a user and the discussions related to those relevant parts of the document. SOLUTION: When a user selects the chapter and paragraph to be reviewed out of a table of contents of a document, a text display switching process 104, a discussion list display switching process 105 and a comment details display switching process 106 are simultaneously carried out. A discussion list document is generated based on a discussion list data table 112. The process 106 is carried out when the user selects his reference comment but of a discussion list document. A comment details document is generated based on the table 112. Then a discussion list data table updating process 107 is carried out when the user selects a comment related command out of the comment details document.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to an environment in which a plurality of clients and a server are connected to a network.
The present invention relates to a method for associating a document placed on a server with a document and additional information when the user browses the document on a client. On how to generate a table of contents and associate the document body with additional information for the document body,

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a system for automatically generating a table of contents of a document body and displaying the relevant part of the body by selecting a headline on the table of contents, "Monthly ASCII Editing Department, Word97 , Monthly ASCII, Vol. 21, pp3
82-387, # 1 January 1997 "(Reference A). This system enables a table of contents from the document body, simultaneous display of the table of contents and the body, and switching of display of the relevant part of the body by selecting a heading.
Has functions.

[0003] A document review or the like is performed on the text of the document,
As a system for associating the text of the document with the additional information, there is Word97 introduced in Document A. In this system, by using the "add comment" function, a user can have a text file and additional information for an arbitrary position of the text text in a document file. Each time information is added to the document file unique to the system, the contents of the file are changed, and the text and additional information are stored and recorded in one document file.

As a system in which each member browses documents shared within a group using the WWW, "Yoshimura Shin,
Mosaic, UNIX Magazine, 1994.3, pp36-44 ". In this system, when each member views a document shared in the group, each member can refer to information associated with the document. When information related to a document viewed by each member is referred to, a reference record is left for each member. Also,
Thereafter, when the same document is browsed, the browsing member displays which information has been referred to among the information related to the document.

As a system for associating a document body with additional information for an arbitrary position of the document, there is Word97 introduced in Document A. In this system, a user can associate additional information with an arbitrary position in a document by using a “comment addition / display” function. When the user browses the document, a mark indicating the state is displayed at a position where the additional information is associated, and when the user selects the mark, the contents of the additional information can be referred to. .

[0006]

In the prior art, there is a description in "Monthly ASCII Editing Department, All of Word97 Understandable, Monthly ASCII, Vol. 21, pp. 382-387, # 1 January 1997" (Reference A). By generating a table of contents for the document, such as a "heading map," the correspondence between each heading and the relevant part of the document can be seen, but discussion cannot be developed for the relevant part of the document corresponding to the heading. . Also,
It is not possible to simultaneously display the relevant part of the document corresponding to the headline and the data relating to the discussion developed for the relevant part of the document.

[0007] In addition, in "Add Comment" in Document A, a text file and comment information for the text can be held together in one document file, and marking display can be performed on a comment added portion. By the way,
Every time the comment information for the text is added, the comment information is added to the text document file, and the document file is enlarged. The text document and comment information cannot be separated and referenced.

Also, "Shin Yoshimura, Mosaic, UNIX Magazine, 1
As described in `` 994.3, pp. 36-44 '', in the means for browsing documents shared within the group, it is possible to record for each individual that the user referred to the information associated with the viewed document. Although it can be displayed, this method can record and display only the reference history related to the individual by changing the color of the part indicating the correspondence as a mark referring to the information corresponding to a part of the document However, it cannot know that another person referred to a certain place in the same document.

In the "comment display" in Document A, a mark or the like indicating that the additional information is associated with the relevant portion of the document is displayed. You can refer to the contents of additional information attached, but by selecting additional information,
The display cannot be switched to the corresponding location in the document.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem. A first object of the present invention is to generate a table of contents from a document body, select a table of contents table, and select a table of contents table. And the main body of the text and the data relating to the discussion developed in the relevant part.

A second object of the present invention is that when a review is performed on a document, the document and the relevant part of the document can be stored without writing a discussion record of the target document directly in the document. Enables the recording of the correspondence with the data related to the developed discussion, the recording of the data related to the discussion developed for the relevant part of the document, and the display of the data related to the developed discussion corresponding to the relevant part of the document. That is.

A third object of the present invention is to make it possible to grasp whether or not another person referred to a certain comment in a certain discussion when a plurality of people are reviewing a certain document. That is.

A fourth object of the present invention is that after a user reviews a certain document, the user refers to the document to be reviewed and data relating to the discussion developed in the relevant part of the document, and relates to the relationship between the document and the discussion. When comprehending, the user does not need to refer to and compare the entire recorded contents of the discussion on the document to be reviewed and the entire document, and simply selects one statement in the data related to the discussion and the statement is the subject of the discussion. The purpose of this is to make it possible to simultaneously refer to and compare the relevant part in the document and the details of the statement.

[0014]

In order to achieve the first object, a method for associating a document with additional information according to the present invention includes a document shared by a plurality of users, data of discussion on the document, A means for holding a program for processing a document browsing request from a user, a means for browsing a document specified by the user and inputting an instruction to the holding means through the document, and (A) generating a table of contents from a document viewed by a user;
(B) inserting an anchor at a corresponding position in the document corresponding to each chapter / section in the table of contents; and (c) selecting a chapter / section in the table of contents so that the user can select the chapter / section in the document corresponding to the chapter / section. Simultaneously displaying a list of data and details of the section and the discussion associated with the section in the document;
(D) recording the data of the discussion on the relevant section in the document corresponding to the chapter / section selected by the user on the table of contents for each chapter / section.

Further, in order to achieve the second object,
The method for associating a document with additional information according to the present invention includes a document shared by a plurality of users, discussion data for the document,
A means for holding a program for processing a document browsing request from a user, a means for browsing a document specified by the user and inputting an instruction to the holding means through the document, and
In a system provided with a means for transmitting an instruction to a holding means from a document viewed by a user, (a) a step of taking in a document specified by the user from an input means; and (b) an arbitrary part of a document specified by the user. Capturing the additional information associated with the position from the input means; and (c) inserting a document component indicating that the additional information is associated with the relevant portion in the captured document; And (d) transferring the processed document generated in step (c) to the holding unit.

Further, in order to achieve the third object,
The method for associating a document with additional information according to the present invention includes a document shared by a plurality of users, discussion data for the document,
A means for holding a program for processing a document browsing request from a user, a means for browsing a document specified by the user and inputting an instruction to the holding means through the document, and
In a system provided with means for transmitting an instruction to a holding unit from a document viewed by a user, (a) the user browses a document specified by the input unit and refers to additional information having a correspondence with the document. And (b) when a user browses the same document as the document browsed in step (a) and refers to additional information having a correspondence with the document. Simultaneously displaying the user's reference status.

Further, in order to achieve the fourth object,
The method for associating a document with additional information according to the present invention includes a document shared by a plurality of users, discussion data for the document,
A means for holding a program for processing a document browsing request from a user, a means for browsing a document specified by the user and inputting an instruction to the holding means through the document, and
In a system including means for transmitting an instruction from a document to be viewed to a holding means from a document to be viewed by a user, (a) a step in which the user records additional information relating to an arbitrary position of the viewed document and the added position; And (c) inserting a document component indicating the correspondence into the browsed document, and (c) selecting one of the additional information from the list of additional information associated by the user in step (a).
Selecting one of the items to display the corresponding portion in the document associated with the additional information.

[0018]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

(Embodiment 1) Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a software configuration of a system in which a user browses a document shared by a group and performs a document review operation on the document. FIG.
, The document browsing client process 101 displays the document transferred from the document browsing server process 102, and transmits an input command received from a user on the document to the document browsing server process. The document browsing server process 102 includes a review preparation process 103, a text display switching process 104, a discussion list display switching process 105, a comment detail display switching process 106, a discussion list data table update process 107, and text data 10.
8, a table of contents data table 111, and a discussion list data table 112. The review preparation processing 103 registers the text source document 109 as a review target, extracts a chapter / section block from the text source document, generates a table of contents data table at the same time, and generates a text new document 110. The text display switching process 104 switches the display of the review target based on the new text document. The discussion list display switching process 105 switches the discussion list display based on the discussion list data table.
The comment detail display switching process 106 switches the display of comment details based on the discussion list data table. The text data is composed of a text source document and a text new document. The table of contents data table records data relating to the table of contents extracted from the text source document. Discussion list data table update processing 10
Reference numeral 7 records, in the discussion list data table, data relating to comments generated by comment addition, editing, deletion, etc. specified by the user.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a system for browsing a document shared by a group via a network and processing a document review operation on the document. In FIG. 2, a document browsing terminal device 201 uses a document browsing client process 101 and a document browsing server process 1 on a document browsing server device 202.
02 is a device for browsing documents managed by the device 02. The document browsing server device has a document browsing terminal device and an external storage device 203. The external storage device stores a document browsing server process.

FIG. 3 shows the structure of the table of contents data table 111 which holds data relating to chapters / section blocks extracted from the text source document 109 by the review preparation processing 103 and data relating to discussions developed for each chapter / section block. It is a block diagram showing. In FIG. 3, the table of contents data table has a chapter / section identification number 301, a chapter / section title 302, and a discussion list data table ID (303). The chapter / section identification number 301 is a unique number having a role of identifying a block added to a chapter / section block when the review preparation process cuts out a chapter / section block from the beginning of the main body document. The chapter / section title 302 is character string data representing the chapter / section title in the chapter / section block cut out by the review preparation processing. The discussion list data table ID 303 has a role of associating a chapter / section block with a discussion developed for the chapter / section block, and serves as an index for referring to a record of the discussion list data table 112.

FIG. 4 shows the chapters constituting the text source document 109.
It is a block diagram showing the structure of the discussion list | wrist data table 112 which hold | maintains the data regarding the discussion developed for every node block. In FIG. 4, the discussion list data table is
Comment number 401, indent level 402, number of children 4
03, comment type 404, comment title 405,
Comment addition date and time 406, commenter name 407, and
It has comment contents 408. The comment type 404 is an item that is input to clarify the intention of the comment content input by the commenter, and is selected from values of an assignment, a request, a question, a contact, an opinion, a proposal, an answer, and a conclusion. The comment title 405 is character string data input by the commenter to express the contents of the comment. Commenter name 4
07 is the name of the commenter who inputs the comment.
The comment addition date and time 406 is a date and time when a commenter inputs a comment and data recording is completed.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the extraction granularity when the document preparation is extracted from the text source document 109 by the review preparation process 103. In FIG. 5, the original text document has a plurality of original document chapter / section blocks 501 constituting the document. The original document chapter / section block 501 has a chapter / section title start tag 502, a chapter / section title 302, a chapter / section title end tag 503, and a chapter / section content 504. Start tag 502, title 302, and end tag 5
03 is a delimiter indicating the range of the content 504.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the structure of a new text document 110 generated from the text source document 109 by the review preparation process 103. In FIG. 6, the text new document has a plurality of new document chapter / section blocks 601 constituting the document. The new document chapter / section block 601 includes a chapter / section identification anchor 602, a chapter / section title start tag 502, a chapter / section title 302, a chapter / section title end tag 503, and a chapter / section title.
It has a section content 504.

The review preparation process 103 generates a table of contents data table 111 while searching for a chapter / section start tag in the body source document and extracting a table of contents structure of the body. In addition, the original document chapter / section block in which the chapter / identification anchor is inserted immediately before the chapter / section start tag is output as a new document chapter / section block to the text new document 110.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing the structure of the browse document 701 displayed by the document browse client process 101 of the document browse terminal device 201. The browsing documents include a table of contents document 702, a new body text document 110, and a discussion list document 70.
3 and a comment detail document 704.
The table of contents document 702 is a document generated based on the table of contents data table 111. When the user selects a chapter / section to be reviewed on the table of contents document, the text display switching process 104,
The discussion list display switching 105 and the comment detail display switching process 106 are executed simultaneously. Discussion list document 703
Is a document generated based on the discussion list data table 112. When the user selects a comment to be referred to on the discussion list document, the comment detail display switching process 106 is executed. The comment detail document 704 is a document generated based on the discussion list data table. When the user selects a comment-related command on the comment detail document, the discussion list data table update processing 107 is executed.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the structure of the table of contents document 702 constituting the browsing document 701. In FIG. 8, the table of contents document 702 has a plurality of table of contents items 801 corresponding to the original document chapter / section block 501 constituting the original body document 109. The table of contents item 801 has a selection mark 802 indicating that the table of contents item is selected by the user, a chapter / section title 302, and a chapter / section identification number 301.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the structure of the discussion list document 703 constituting the browsing document 701.

In FIG. 9, a discussion list document 703 has a plurality of comment items 901 constituting a discussion list display.
The comment item 901 has a comment type 404, a comment title 405, a commenter name 407, and a comment addition date and time 406. When displaying comment items, connection lines are displayed between the comment items to indicate the connection relationship between the comment items. At this time, discussion list data table 1
12 has an indentation level 402 and the number of children 403
The connection relationship between the items is displayed using the data of.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the structure of the comment detail document 704 constituting the browsing document 701. 10, a comment detail document 704 has a comment related command menu 1001, a comment type 404, a comment title 405, a commenter name 407, a comment addition date and time 406, a comment content 408, and a comment number 401. Comment related command menu 10
01 is a command for a comment displayed in the comment detail document, and has a comment addition, a comment editing, and a comment deletion. It also has a comment addition command for the chapter / section selected by the user.

Hereinafter, the details of the processing flow of the review preparation processing 103 in FIG. 1, that is, the flow of the preparation processing performed before the user starts the document review will be described with reference to FIG.

It is assumed that the text source document specified as the review target has already been stored in the external storage device of the document browsing server device.

First, in this process, the name of the text source document 109 specified by the user as a review target is received as a parameter (step 1101). Next, step 11
In step 1102, a text source document specified by the text source document name received in step 01 is opened to newly create an empty text new document 110. Next, the following process is repeated until the text reaches the end of the original document, and the content is written in the new text document. That is, one line is read from the text original document (step 1).
103) If the end of the text original document has been reached (step 1104), the text original document and the new text document are closed (step 1115), and this process ends.

Otherwise, if the end of the original text document has not been reached (step 1104), the original document chapter
A process of inserting the chapter / section identification anchor 602 into the section block 501 is performed. That is, if the character string of the read line does not include the chapter / section title start tag 502 (step 1105), the held character string is written out to a new body text document (step 1106), and the process returns to step 1103.

Otherwise, the chapter in the read character string
If the section title start tag is included (step 110
5) A unique chapter / section identification number 301 is set (step 1107), and a chapter / section identification anchor having the set chapter / section identification number as information is generated (step 110).
8), keep the character string until the line containing the chapter / section title end tag is read. That is, if the chapter / section title end tag 503 is not included in the character string of the read line (step 1109), the read character string is held (step 1110). Otherwise, if the chapter / section title end tag is included in the character string of the read line (step 1109), the process proceeds to the next step. That is, a character string between the chapter / section start tag and the chapter / section end tag is acquired as a chapter / section title from the stored character strings (step 1111), and the chapter / section in the retained character string is acquired. The chapter / section identification anchor generated in step 1108 is inserted immediately before the section start tag (step 1112), and one record consisting of the set chapter / section identification number and the acquired chapter / section title is additionally recorded in the table of contents data table 111. (Step 1113), and if the stored character string includes another chapter / section title start tag (step 1113).
14) Return to step 1107. Otherwise, if the retained character string does not include another chapter / section title start tag (step 1114), the retained character string is written out as a new body text document (step 1106), and step 1103 is performed. Return to

Referring to FIG. 12, after the review preparation process 103 is completed, the user refers to the document to be reviewed using the browsed document 701, adds a comment to the text, refers to the comment, and adds a comment to the reference comment. The following describes a processing flow at the time of document review.

At this point, the user executes the document browsing client process on the document browsing terminal device and refers to the browsed document, but does not perform any review, that is, the review preparation described above. It is assumed that nothing has been recorded in the discussion list data table just because the processing has been executed.

First, in this processing, the user reads the document 70
1 to wait for a command to be input (step 12
01), if a command is input (step 1201)
The following processing is performed according to the input command. When a table of contents item 801 is selected on the table of contents document 702 (step 1)
202), the display of the new text document 110 is switched (step 1203), the display of the discussion list document 703 is switched (step 1204), the display of the comment detail document 704 is switched (step 1205), and the process returns to step 1201. When the comment addition command is executed on the comment detail document (step 1206), data relating to the added comment is additionally recorded in the discussion list data table 112 (step 1207), and the display of the discussion list document is switched (step 1204). It returns to 1201.
When the comment item 901 is selected on the discussion list document (step 1208), the display of the comment detail document is switched (step 1203), and the process returns to step 1201.
When the end command is selected on the browsed document (step 1
209) This process ends, and if a command other than the above is input, nothing is performed and the process returns to step 1201.

Here, Step 1203 corresponds to the text display switching process 104 shown in FIG. 1, Step 1204 corresponds to the discussion list display switching process 105 shown in FIG. 1, and Step 1205 is the comment detail display shown in FIG. Switching process 1
In step 08, step 1207 corresponds to the discussion list data table update process 107 in FIG. The details of each process will be described below.

First, a text display switching process 1 will be described with reference to FIG.
The details of the process flow of step 04 will be described. In this process, a chapter corresponding to the table of contents item 801 selected by the user on the table of contents document 702. The node identification number 301 is received as a parameter (step 1301). Next, the chapter / section identification anchor 60 having the chapter / section identification number as information in the new body text document 110.
The document after the part where the number 2 is inserted is displayed (step 1302).

The document browsing client process 101 has a process of switching the display of the browsing document 701 by passing the name of the anchor as a parameter to the browsing document while the anchor is inserted in the browsing document 701.

Next, the processing flow of the discussion list display switching processing 105 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. In this process, the chapter / section identification number 301 corresponding to the table of contents item 801 selected by the user on the table of contents document 702 is received as a parameter (step 1401). Next, the table of contents data table 1
11 and refers to the record corresponding to the chapter / section identification number received as a parameter, and refers to the discussion list data table I.
D (303) is obtained (step 1402). next,
If the acquired discussion list data table ID is 0 (step 1403), a discussion list document 703 including only the page title as the text is generated and displayed on the browse document 701 (step 1406), and this process ends. Otherwise, if the acquired discussion list data table ID is other than 0 (step 1403), the discussion list data table 11 corresponding to the acquired discussion list data table ID
2 (step 1404), a discussion list document is generated based on the table, and displayed on the browsed document (step 14).
05), this process ends.

Next, the processing flow of the comment detail display switching processing 106 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

In this process, the chapter / section identification number 30 corresponding to the table of contents item 801 selected by the user on the table of contents document 702
1, and the comment number 401 corresponding to the comment item 901 selected by the user on the discussion list document 703 or the first record of the discussion list data table 112 is received as a parameter (step 150).
1). Next, the discussion list data table ID (303) is acquired by referring to the record corresponding to the chapter / section identification number received as a parameter from the table of contents data table 111 (step 1402). Next, if the acquired discussion list data table ID is 0 (step 1403),
A comment detail document 704 including only the comment related command menu 1001 is generated and displayed on the browsing document 701 (step 1504), and this process ends. Otherwise, if the acquired discussion list data table ID is other than 0 (step 1403), the discussion list data table corresponding to the acquired discussion list data table ID is acquired (step 1404), and the acquired discussion list data table is acquired. Refers to one record corresponding to the comment number received as a parameter of this processing (step 150).
2) A comment detail display document is generated based on the referenced one record and displayed on the browse document (step 1503), and this process ends.

Next, the processing flow of the discussion list data table update processing 107 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. In this process, the user receives, as a parameter, the discussion list data table update processing type selected from the comment related command menu 1001 on the comment detail document 704 (step 1601), and performs the following processing according to the received update processing type. If the update processing type is comment editing (step 1602), the comment number 401 to be edited is received from the user (step 1611).
The user receives the comment type 404, comment title 405, and comment content 408 to which the user has changed (step 1612), obtains the current date and time as the change time (step 1613), and obtains the comment obtained in the previous two steps. The type, comment title, comment content, and change date and time are saved in the record corresponding to the comment number received in step 1611 in the discussion list data table 112 (step 1614), and this process ends.

If the update processing type is comment deletion (step 1603), a comment number to be deleted is received from the user (step 1609), and the record corresponding to the comment number received in step 1609 in the discussion list data table is entered. Removal (step 1610) ends this processing. If the update processing type is comment addition (step 1604), the comment type, comment title, commenter, and comment content are received from the user (step 1605), and the current date and time are acquired as the additional date and time (step 1606). A comment number is set by incrementing the maximum comment number of the discussion list data table by one (step 1607), and the comment type, comment title, commenter, comment content, and comment content received in step 1605 and step 16
Comment addition date and time 406 acquired in step 06 and step 16
One record consisting of the comment number acquired in 07 is added to the discussion list data table (step 1608), and this processing ends.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, 7, and 12, how the processing steps flow according to the operation performed by the user on the browsed document will be described.

The user enters a table of contents item “1. Introduction” (80) on the table of contents document 702 in the browsing document 701 shown in FIG.
When 1) is selected, the chapter / section identification number "1" (301) of the table of contents item is passed as a parameter to the text display switching process 104, the discussion list display switching process 105, and the comment detail display switching process 106. (Corresponding to steps 1301, 1401, and 1501, respectively). The text display switching process 104 to which the chapter / section identification number “1” has been passed immediately executes step 1302, and the text “1. Next, the discussion list display switching process 105 to which the chapter / section identification number “1” has been passed is immediately executed in step 1402.
To obtain the discussion list data table ID (303) corresponding to the chapter / section identification number “1”, refer to the discussion list data table 112 based on the ID, and discuss the discussion list document 703 based on the discussion list data table. Is displayed (corresponding to steps 1402, 1404, and 1405). A document having the contents shown in the discussion list document of FIG. 7 is displayed from the data in the table shown in FIG.

Next, the comment number “00000001” (4 in the uppermost record of the discussion list data table)
01) is passed to the comment detail display switching process 106 as a parameter. The comment detail display switching process 106 to which the comment number “00000001” is passed immediately executes step 1502 and thereafter, and executes the comment number “00000000”.
A comment detailed document 704 is generated and displayed based on the data of the record corresponding to “01”. The comment detail document shown in FIG. 7 is generated and displayed from the record data shown in FIG. 4 (steps 1502 to 1506). next,
The comment number displayed here is "00000000
When the user selects a comment addition command from the comment-related command menu 1001 on the comment detail document “1”, steps 1605 to 1608 are executed. That is, when "97/04/27 14:18:11", the comment type 404 is "answer" and the comment title 40
Assuming that “Re: XX is?” As 5, “Sato” as commenter name 407, and “… (omitted)” as comment content 408 are entered in the discussion list data table shown in FIG. A record corresponding to the number “00000002” is added. When the user selects a comment deletion command from the comment related command menu 1001 on the comment detail document of the comment number “00000001” displayed here, step 16 is executed.
From step 09, step 1610 is executed. That is, FIG.
Is deleted from the discussion list data table shown in (1) corresponding to the comment number "00000001". Also, the comment number “000” displayed here
When the user selects a comment edit command from the comment-related command menu 1001 on the comment detail document “00001”, steps 1611 to 16
14 is executed. That is, the content of one record corresponding to the comment number “00000001” in the discussion list data table shown in FIG. 4 is updated.

The table of contents document 70 describes what has been described so far.
The document review for the entire new text document 110 can be performed by performing the same procedure for the other table of contents items 801 displayed in 2.

According to this embodiment, at the time of document review, the review preparation process generates a table of contents and inserts an anchor into the document to be reviewed, so that the discussion is recorded and managed for each table of contents while browsing the document to be reviewed.・ Can be referenced. The correspondence between the document to be reviewed and the comment on the document can be easily obtained.

(Embodiment 2) A second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

In the above embodiment, the minimum granularity of discussion data management accumulated during document review is used as the chapter / section block of the target document. However, the granularity of the table of contents data table is reduced and any position in the document is determined. By managing the discussion on, it is possible to see the correspondence between the detailed part of the document and the discussion data for that part. In the above embodiment, the discussion of the chapter / section is displayed by designating the chapter / section item of the document. Can be displayed.

FIG. 17 shows the software configuration of a system that allows a user to browse a new body text document 1708 shared by a group and to process a document review operation on the document. The configuration of FIG. 17 is almost the same as that of FIG. 1, and a table of contents / additional position association processing 1704 and an additional position data table 1710 are newly added. Also, in the processing in FIG.
Text display switching process 104, discussion list display switching process 10
5 and the comment detail display switching process 106 are changed to a review preparation process 1702, a text display switching process 1703, a discussion list display switching process 1705, and a comment detail display switching process 1706, respectively.
Of the text data 108, the new text document 109, and the table of contents data table 111 are the text data 1707 and the text new document 170, respectively.
8 and the table of contents data table 1709 is changed.

FIG. 18 is an extension of FIG. 3, and is a table of contents holding data relating to document components extracted from the text source document 109 by the review preparation processing 1702 and data relating to discussions developed for each document component. FIG. 18 is a block diagram showing the structure of a data table 1709. In FIG.
1, a component head character string 1802, and an additional position data table ID (1803). The component identification number 1801 is a unique number that is added to a document component block when the review preparation process cuts out a document component block from the beginning of the original document. Component head string 18
02 is constituent character string data in a constituent block extracted by the review preparation processing. The string data is
If the constituent element is a chapter / section, the entire character string representing the chapter / section title is used. If the constituent element is other than the chapter / section, the first 10 characters of the constituent character string are used. Additional position data table ID 180
Reference numeral 3 has a role of associating a component block with a discussion developed for the component block, and serves as an index for referring to the additional position data table 1707.

FIG. 19 is a block diagram showing the structure of an additional position data table 1707 which holds data relating to the scope of discussion added to each component block constituting the original document. In FIG. 19, an addition position data table 1707 includes an addition number 1901, an addition target range start character number 1902, and an addition target range end character number 190.
3 and a discussion list data table ID (901). The addition number 1901 is a unique number added to a block when the table of contents / additional position association process adds a discussion target range to a component block in the text source document. The record with the additional number 0 in the additional position data table has a role of associating only a comment over the entire component block. The start character number 1902 and the end character number 1903 are numbers when the range to be discussed is counted by the number of characters.

FIG. 20 is an extension of FIG. 5, and is a block diagram showing the structure of the cutout granularity when the review preparation processing 1702 cuts out the document structure from the text source document 109. In FIG. 20, the text original document has a plurality of original document component blocks 2001 constituting the document. The original document component block has a component start tag 2002, a component character string 2003, and a component end tag 2004.

FIG. 21 is an extension of FIG. 6, and is a block diagram showing the structure of the new text document 1709 generated from the text source document 109 by the review preparation processing 1702. FIG.
In FIG. 1, the text new document has a plurality of new document component blocks 2101 constituting the document. The new document component block has a component identification anchor 2102, a component start tag 2002, a component character string 2003, and a component end tag 2004.

The review preparation processing 1702 generates the table of contents data table 1709 while searching for the component start tag 2002 in the body source document 109 and extracting the table of contents structure of the body. In addition, a component obtained by inserting the component identification anchor 2102 immediately before the component start tag of the original document component block 2001 is output as a new document component block 2101 to the new body document 1709.

FIG. 22 is a block diagram showing a state in which the additional position identification anchor 2201 is merged into the constituent element character string 2003 of the new body text 1708 displayed by the body display switching process 1703 based on the information of the additional position data table 1710. FIG. 22, an additional position identification anchor 2201 has the same role as the component identification anchor in FIG. The component element identification anchor in FIG. 21 is an anchor for displaying the corresponding part of the text corresponding to the table of contents item when the user selects the table of contents item 801 on the table of contents document 702, and the additional position identification anchor 2201 is discussed by the user. When a comment item 901 is selected on the list document 703, the comment item 901 becomes an anchor for displaying the corresponding part of the text corresponding to the comment item.

Referring to FIG. 23, the details of the process flow of the review preparation process 1702 in FIG.
A flow of a preparation process performed before a user starts document review will be described. This processing is an improvement of the processing flow of the review preparation processing 103 shown in FIG. 11 and described in the first embodiment, and includes steps 1101, 1103, and 110.
Only 4 performs the same processing.

It is assumed that the text source document 109 to be reviewed is already stored in the external storage device 203 of the document browsing server device 202.

First, in this process, the name of the text source document 109 specified by the user as a review target is received as a parameter (step 1101). Next, step 11
The original document designated by the original document name received in step 01 is opened, and an empty new text document 1709 is newly created (step 2301). Next, the following process is repeated until the text reaches the end of the original document, and the contents are written out to a new text document. That is, one line is read from the original text document (step 1103), and if there is a character string that reaches the end of the original text document (step 1104) and is held (step 2314), the character string is written out to the new text document (step 1103). 2315) The original text document and the new text document are closed (step 2316), and this process ends. Instead, it reaches the end of the original document (step 1104).
If there is no character string held (step 2314), the main body original document and the new main body document are closed (step 2316), and this processing ends.

If the end of the text original document has not been reached (step 1104), processing for inserting the component identification anchor 2102 into the original document component block 2001 is performed. That is, if the character string of the read line does not include the component start tag 2002 (step 2).
302), the written character string is written out to a new body text document (step 2303), and the process returns to step 1103. Otherwise, if the component start tag is included in the read character string (step 2302), a unique component identification number 1801 is set (step 2304), and the set component identification number is used as information. A constituent element identification anchor to be generated is generated (step 2305). Thereafter, the character string is kept held until the line containing the component end tag is read. That is, when the component end tag 2004 is not included in the character string of the read line (step 2306), the read character string is held (step 2307).

Otherwise, if the component end tag is included in the character string of the read line (step 230)
6), from the held character string to the constituent element character string 2003
Perform the process of acquiring. That is, when the acquired component start tag is a chapter / section (step 2308), a character string between the component start tag and the component end tag 2003 is set as a component character string 2003 (step 2310). Otherwise, if the acquired component start tag is not a chapter / section (step 2308), the first 10 characters of the character string between the component start tag and the component end tag are set as the component character string ( Step 2309).

Next, the component identification anchor generated in step 2305 is inserted before the part having the component start tag in the held character string (step 2311).
One record consisting of the set constituent element identification number and the obtained constituent character string is additionally recorded in the table of contents data table 1709 (step 2312), and if there is another constituent element start tag in the held character string (step 2312). 2313) Return to step 2304, otherwise, if there is no other component start tag in the held character string (step 2304).
313) The held character string is written out to the new body text document (step 2303), and the process returns to step 1103.

Referring to FIG. 24, after the review preparation processing 1702 is completed in the second embodiment, the user
The processing flow at the time of document review in which the reference 1 is used to reference the text of the document to be reviewed, add a comment to the text, refer to the comment, and add a comment to the reference comment will be described. This processing flow is a modification of the processing flow at the time of review in the first embodiment shown in FIG. Processing step 2404 is performed between processing steps 1208 and 1203 in FIG.
3, a processing step 2401 is added. Also, processing steps 1203 and 1204 in FIG.
Details of 1205 have been changed.

At this point, the user executes the document browsing client process on the document browsing terminal device and refers to the browsed document, but does not perform any review, that is, the review preparation described above. It is assumed that nothing has been recorded in the discussion list data table just because the processing has been executed.

First, in this processing, the user sets the browsing document 70
1 to wait for a command to be input (step 12
01), if a command is input (step 1201)
The following processing is performed according to the input command. When a table of contents item 801 is selected on the table of contents document 702 (step 1)
202), the display of the text new document 1708 is switched (step 2401), the display of the discussion list document 703 is switched (step 2402), the display of the comment detail document 704 is switched (step 2403), and the process returns to step 1201. When the comment addition command is executed on the comment detail document (step 1206), the comment addition target range selected by the user is recorded (step 2404), and the data relating to the added comment is displayed in the discussion list data in the discussion list data table. 112 is additionally recorded (step 12
07), the display of the discussion list document 703 is switched (step 2402), and the process returns to step 1201. When the comment item 901 is selected on the discussion list document (step 1
208), the display of the new text document is switched (step 24).
01), the display of the comment detail document is switched (step 2403), and the process returns to step 1201. When an end command is selected on the browsed document (step 1209), the process is terminated, and if a command other than the above is input, the process returns to step 1201 without doing anything.

Here, step 2401 corresponds to the text display switching process 1703 shown in FIG.
17 corresponds to the discussion list display switching process 1705 shown in FIG. 17, step 2403 corresponds to the comment detail display switching process 1706 shown in FIG. 17, and step 2404 corresponds to FIG.
In the table of contents / additional position association processing 1704 shown in FIG.
Step 1207 corresponds to the discussion list data table update process 107 in FIG. The details of each process will be described below.

First, the text display switching process 1 will be described with reference to FIG.
Details of the processing flow of 703 will be described. In this processing, the component identification number 1801 corresponding to the table of contents item 801 selected by the user on the table of contents document 702 and the discussion list document 703
An additional number indicating the additional range to which the comment item 901 selected above belongs is received as a parameter (step 250).
1). Next, an additional position data table 1707 is obtained based on the received component identification number. Next, the new body text document 1709 is read, and all the records of the acquired additional position data table are referred to, and the additional position identification anchor 2201 is merged based on the additional range information of each record (step 2504). Next, the new body text document with the added position identification anchor merged is displayed in the browsed document 701 (step 2505).

Next, the processing flow of the table of contents / additional position association processing 1704 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. In this process, the user receives, as a parameter, the component identification number 1801 corresponding to the table of contents item 901 selected on the table of contents document 702 (step 2601). Next, the user is allowed to select a discussion target range on the new text document 1708, obtains a component block 2101 to which the selected range belongs, compares it with the component character string 2003 of the component block, and compares the component block 2101 with the component block. Start target character number 1
902 and the addition target range end character number 1903 are acquired (step 2602). Next, an additional position data table ID (1803) corresponding to the component identification number received as a parameter is obtained, and the additional position data table 1707 corresponding to the additional position data table ID is referred to (step 2603). Next, step 2602
One record consisting of the addition target range start character number and the addition target range end character number acquired in (1) is added to the referenced addition position data table (step 2604).

Next, the processing flow of the discussion list display switching processing 1705 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. In this processing, the table of contents item 801 selected by the user on the table of contents document 702
Is received as a parameter (step 2701). Next, an additional position data table ID (1803) is obtained by referring to the record corresponding to the component element identification number received as a parameter from the table of contents data table 1709 (step 270).
2). Next, the acquired additional position data table ID is 0
If so (step 2703), a discussion list document 703 containing only the page title as the text is generated and displayed on the browse document 701 (step 2707), and this process ends. Otherwise, if the acquired additional position data table ID is other than 0 (step 2703), an additional position data table 1707 corresponding to the acquired additional position data table ID is acquired (step 2704). Next, if the acquired additional position data table is empty (step 2705), a discussion list document including only the page title as the text is generated and displayed on the browsed document (step 2707), and this process ends. Otherwise, if the acquired additional position data table is not empty (step 2705), a discussion list document is generated based on the table 1707 and displayed on the browsed document (step 2706), and this process ends.

Next, the processing flow of the comment detail display switching processing 1706 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. In this process, the table of contents item 8 selected by the user on the table of contents document 702
01, the additional position identification anchor 2 selected by the user on the new body text document 1708
201, or an additional number 190 included as information in the comment item 901 selected by the user on the discussion list document 703.
1 and the comment item 401 selected by the user on the discussion list document or the comment number 401 corresponding to the first record of the discussion list data table 112 are received as parameters (step 2801). Next, an additional position data table ID (1803) is obtained by referring to the record corresponding to the component element identification number received as a parameter from the table of contents data table 1709 (step 270).
2).

Next, the acquired additional position data table I
If D is 0 (step 2703), a comment detail document 704 including only the comment-related command menu 1001 as the text is generated and displayed on the browse document 701 (step 1504), and this process ends. Otherwise, if the acquired additional position data table ID is not 0 (step 2703), the additional position data table 1707 corresponding to the acquired additional position data table ID
In the discussion list data table ID (90) corresponding to the additional number received as a parameter in step 2801
1) is acquired (step 2802), the comment detail document is displayed, and this process ends.

The processing for displaying the comment detail document differs depending on the following cases. First, when the discussion list data table ID acquired in step 2802 is 0 (step 280)
3), Step 1504 is executed, and this process ends. Otherwise, if the discussion list data table ID is not 0 (step 2803), the discussion list data table 11 corresponding to the acquired discussion list data table ID
2 (step 2804), and refers to the record corresponding to the comment number acquired in step 2801 in the acquired discussion list data table (step 280).
5) A comment detail document is generated based on the record and displayed in the browse document (step 2806), and this process ends.

According to the present embodiment, at the time of document review, simply selecting the added comment,
In addition, it is possible to simultaneously refer to the part of the text associated with the comment.

(Embodiment 3) A third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

In the second embodiment, it is possible to manage and refer to which user made a comment at the time of document review. By managing information on the items of the comments that each user referred at the time of document review, Can refer to other users when referring to a comment.

FIG. 29 shows the software configuration of a system that allows a user to view a new body text document 1708 shared by a group and to process document review work on the document. The configuration of FIG. 29 is almost the same as that of FIG. 17, and a read item addition process 2904 and a read data table 2903 are newly added, and the process flow of the discussion list display switching process 1705 in the process of FIG. Changes to discussion list display switching processing 2902.

FIG. 30 is a block diagram showing the structure of a read data table 2803 holding data on comment items referenced by each user for each user. FIG.
In the read data table, the read item number 300
1, a reference date and time 3002 for recording the date and time when the comment item was referenced, a component identification number 1801 to which the referenced comment item belongs, an additional number 1901 to which the referenced comment item belongs, and a comment number 401 for the referenced comment item. Have.

FIG. 31 shows the discussion list document 70 shown in FIG.
3 is a block diagram illustrating the structure of a discussion list document 3101 obtained by expanding the structure of FIG. In FIG. 31, the structure of a plurality of comment items included in the discussion list document changes. A comment item 3102 is obtained by adding a read mark 3103 to the comment item 901 in FIG. By selecting a read mark, you can see a list of people who have referred to the comment.

FIG. 32 is a block diagram showing the structure of a read status document 3201 generated based on the read data table. In FIG. 32, the read status document has a plurality of read items 3202 indicating the reader who referred to the comment item. The already-read reader item has a commenter name 407 and a reference date and time 3002. The commenter name is the name of the user who referred to the comment item, and the reference date and time is the date and time when the user referred to the comment item.

Referring to FIG. 33, after the review preparation processing 1702 is completed in the third embodiment, the user
The processing flow at the time of document review in which the reference 1 is used to reference the text of the document to be reviewed, add a comment to the text, refer to the comment, and add a comment to the reference comment will be described. This processing flow is a modification of the processing flow at the time of review in the second embodiment shown in FIG. A processing step 3302 is added between the processing steps 1209 and 2401 in FIG. Also, the details of processing step 2402 have changed.

At this point, it is assumed that a certain amount of document review has been performed and some data has been recorded in the discussion list data table.

First, in this process, the user browses the document 70
1 to wait for a command to be input (step 12
01), if a command is input (step 1201)
The following processing is performed according to the input command. When a table of contents item 801 is selected on the table of contents document 702 (step 1)
202), the display of the new text document 1708 is switched (step 2401), the display of the discussion list document 703 is switched (step 3301), the display of the comment detail document 704 is switched (step 2403), and the process returns to step 1201. When the comment addition command is executed on the comment detail document (step 1206), the comment addition target range selected by the user is recorded (step 2404), and data relating to the added comment is additionally recorded in the discussion list data table 112 ( Step 1207), the display of the discussion list document is switched (step 3301), and the process returns to step 1201. Comment item 90 on the discussion list document
When 1 is selected (step 1208), a comment read item is added to the read data table 2903 (step 3302), and the display of the new text document is switched (step 2).
401), the display of the comment detail document is switched (step 2403), and the process returns to step 1201. When an end command is selected on the browsed document (step 1209), the process is terminated, and if a command other than the above is input, the process returns to step 1201 without doing anything.

Here, step 3301 corresponds to the discussion list display switching process 2902 shown in FIG.
Reference numeral 302 corresponds to the read item adding process 2904 shown in FIG. The details of each process will be described below.

First, the processing flow of the discussion list display switching processing 2902 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. This processing flow corresponds to step 270 in the processing flow shown in FIG.
6 is changed to steps 3401 and 3402. Here, only steps 3401 and 3402 will be described. If the additional position data table 1707 is not empty in step 2705, the read data table 2903 of all users is referred to (step 3401), a read mark 3103 is generated based on the read data table referred to, and the read mark is read. Comment item 31 with mark inserted
Then, a discussion list document 3101 composed of “02” is generated and displayed on the browse document 701 (step 3402).

Next, referring to FIG. 35, a read item adding process 2
Details of the processing flow of step 904 will be described. In this process, the comment item 9 selected by the user on the discussion list document 703
01 has an element identification number 1801 and an additional number 19
01, a comment number 401, and a commenter name 407 representing the name of the user are received as parameters (step 3501). Next, an additional record including the received component element identification number, additional number, and comment number is added to the read data table 2903 corresponding to the commenter name (step 3502).

According to this embodiment, at the time of document review, it is possible to grasp at a time whether or not each user has referred to a comment among review participants.

[0091]

According to the present invention, when referring to a comment relating to a certain document, it is not necessary to individually examine the document to be added, the added comment and its list, and the comment adding range in the document. You can easily see the comment list, comment details, and correspondence.
In addition, it is easy to grasp the issues and the progress of the discussion on a certain part in the document, and the discussion can be developed immediately.

According to the present invention, when additional information relating to a certain document is merged, there is no need to directly rewrite the document to be merged or add merge information to the same document file. It is possible to browse the processed document having the additional position, the text of the document, and the correspondence between the additional information and the document to which the additional information is to be added and the additional information can be easily used for other purposes.

Further, according to the present invention, when managing and referring to the reference information for each individual with respect to the shared information for the shared document in the group, the reference information is reflected in the shared document only when the individual refers to the shared document. Instead, the shared information reference information on all users belonging to the group can be reflected in the shared document.

Finally, according to the present invention, when looking at the correspondence between a comment added to a certain document and the document, it is not necessary for the user to read the contents of the comment and specify the relevant part in the document, By simply selecting an item, the user can refer to the corresponding part in the document corresponding to the comment.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a software configuration for explaining a first embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration.

FIG. 3 shows the structure of a table of contents data table (1).

FIG. 4 is a structure of a discussion list data table.

FIG. 5 shows the structure of the original document (1).

FIG. 6 shows the structure of a text new document (1).

FIG. 7 shows a configuration of a browsed document displayed by a document browse client process.

FIG. 8: Structure of a table of contents document

FIG. 9: Structure of a discussion list document

FIG. 10 shows the structure of a comment detail document.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a review preparation process according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 12 is a processing flow at the time of review in the first embodiment;

13 is a detailed processing flow of step 1203 in FIG.

14 is a detailed processing flow of step 1204 in FIG.

FIG. 15 is a detailed processing flow of step 1205 in FIG. 12;

FIG. 16 is a processing flow for updating a discussion list data table in the first embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a software configuration illustrating a second embodiment.

FIG. 18 shows a structure of a table of contents data table (2).

FIG. 19 shows the structure of an additional position data table.

FIG. 20 shows the structure of the original document (2).

FIG. 21 shows the structure of a text new document (2).

FIG. 22 shows the structure of a component character string.

FIG. 23 is a flowchart of a review preparation process according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 24 is a processing flow at the time of review in the second embodiment.

FIG. 25 is a detailed processing flow of step 2401 in FIG. 24;

FIG. 26 is a detailed processing flow of step 2404 in FIG. 24;

FIG. 27 is a detailed processing flow of step 2402 in FIG. 24;

FIG. 28 is a detailed processing flow of step 2403 in FIG. 24;

FIG. 29 is a software configuration illustrating a third embodiment.

FIG. 30 shows the structure of a read data table.

FIG. 31 shows the structure of a discussion list document with a read mark

FIG. 32: Structure of a read mark

FIG. 33 is a processing flow at the time of review in the third embodiment;

FIG. 34 is a detailed processing flow of step 3301 in FIG. 34;

FIG. 35 is a detailed processing flow of step 3302 in FIG. 34;

[Explanation of symbols]

101: document browsing client process, 102: document browsing server process, 103: review preparation process, 104: text display switching process, 105: discussion list display switching process, 106
... comment detail display switching processing, 107 ... discussion list data table update processing, 108 ... text data, 109 ... text original document, 110 ... text new document, 111 ... table of contents data table, 112 ... discussion list data table 201 ... document viewing terminal Device, 202: Document browsing server device, 203: External storage device 301: Chapter / section identification number, 302: Chapter / section title, 3
03: Discussion list data table ID 401: Comment number, 402: Indent level, 4
03: Number of children, 404: Comment type, 405: Comment title, 406: Comment addition date and time, 407: Commenter name, 408: Comment content 501: Original document chapter / section block, 502: Chapter / section title start tag, 503 … Chapter / section title end tag, 504
… Chapter / section contents 601… New document chapter / section block, 602… Chapter / section identification anchor 701… Browse document, 702… Table of contents document, 703… Discussion list document, 704… Comment detailed document 801… Table of contents item, 802… Selection Mark 901: Comment item 1001: Comment related command menu 1701: Document browsing server, 1702: Review preparation processing, 1703: Text display switching processing, 1704: Table of contents / additional position association processing, 1705: Discussion list display switching processing, 1706 ... Comment detail display switching processing, 1707 ...
Text data, 1708: New text document, 1709: Table of contents data table, 1710: Additional position data table 1801: Component identification number, 1802: Component head character string, 1803: Additional position data table ID 1901: Additional number, 1902 ... Addition target range start character number, 1903: Addition target range end character number 2001: Original document component block, 2002: Component start tag, 2003: Component character string, 2004: Component end tag 2101: New document component block , 2102... Component identification anchor 2201... Additional position identification anchor 2901... Document browsing server, 2902... Discussion list display switching process, 2903... Read data table, 2904. Reference date 3101… Discussion 1 , 3102 ... comment item, 310
3: read mark 3201: read status document, 3202: read item

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A means for holding a document shared by a plurality of users, data for discussion on the document, and a program for processing a document browsing request from the user. (A) generating a table of contents from a document viewed by a user, the system comprising: a means for inputting an instruction to the holding means through a URL; and a means for transmitting an instruction to the holding means from a document viewed by a user. (B) inserting an anchor at a corresponding position in the document corresponding to each chapter / section of the table of contents, and (c) selecting a chapter / section on the table of contents by the user to select the chapter / section. Simultaneously displaying a list of data and the details of discussions related to the relevant location in the document corresponding to the relevant document, and (d) corresponding to the chapter / section selected by the user in the table of contents In the document Chapter the data of the discussion to the relevant section,
A method for associating a document with additional information, characterized by having a step of recording for each section. 2. A means for holding a document shared by a plurality of users, data for discussing the document, and a program for processing a document browsing request from the user. A means for inputting an instruction to the holding means through a URL, and a means for transmitting the instruction to the holding means from a document viewed by a user. (B) capturing additional information associated with an arbitrary position of the document specified by the user from the input unit; and (c) storing the additional information at a corresponding location in the captured document. And (d) transferring the processed document generated in step (c) to the holding unit. Correspondence method between documents and additional information, characterized in that that. 3. A means for holding a document shared by a plurality of users, data for discussing the document, and a program for processing a document browsing request from the user. A means for inputting an instruction to the holding means through a web browser, and a means for transmitting the instruction to the holding means from a document viewed by a user, wherein (a) a document specified by the user from the input means And recording and managing for each user that the user has browsed and referred to additional information having a correspondence with the document,
(B) when a certain user browses the same document as the document browsed in the step (a) and refers to additional information having a correspondence with the document, simultaneously displaying a reference situation of another user; A method for associating a document with additional information. 4. A means for holding a document shared by a plurality of users, discussion data for the document, a program for processing a document browsing request from the user, and browsing a document specified by a user to read the document. A means for inputting an instruction to the holding means through a URL, and a means for transmitting an instruction to the holding means from a document to be viewed by a user. Recording additional information to be associated and its additional position;
(B) a step of inserting a document component indicating the correspondence into the browsed document; and (c) the user selects one item from the list of additional information associated in step (a) to add the document component. A method for associating a document with additional information, comprising the step of displaying the portion in the document associated with the information. 5. A means for holding a document shared by a plurality of users, discussion data for the document, a program for processing a document browsing request from the user, and browsing a document specified by a user and reading the document. And a means for inputting an instruction to the holding means through a web browser and a means for transmitting the instruction to the holding means from a document viewed by a user. A storage medium having any of the steps of claim 4. 6. A method for associating a document including a plurality of components each including a title and contents with at least one piece of additional information related to the document by using a processing device, comprising: a) the document based on the title; B) insert an identifier at a corresponding position in the content corresponding to the input additional information; c) each of the titles based on the table of contents and the insertion position information of the identifier Generating list information of the management information of the additional information corresponding to the title; and d) storing the additional information corresponding to each of the titles based on the list information. How to associate information. 7. A method for associating a document including a plurality of components each including a title and contents with at least one piece of additional information related to the document by using a processing device, comprising: a) the document based on the title; B) insert an identifier at a corresponding position in the content corresponding to the input additional information; c) each of the titles based on the table of contents and the insertion position information of the identifier Generating list information of the management information of the additional information corresponding to the additional information; d) detecting a corresponding portion in the content corresponding to the additional information selected from the list information; A method of associating a document with additional information, characterized by displaying a corresponding portion in a corresponding document,