MANAGING COMPOUND XML DOCUMENTS IN A REPOSITORY

摘要

A declarative mechanism is used to manage large documents within a repository. The large documents are sectioned into subdocuments that are linked together by a parent document. The combination of the parent document and subdocument is referred to as a compound document. There are multiple options for configuring rules to break up a source document into a compound document and naming the subdocuments. The compound documents may be queried using statements that treat the compound document as a single XML document, or the parent document of a subdocument may be queried and treated independently. Access control and versioning can be applied at the finer granularity of the subdocument.

主权项

1. A method comprising,
in response to receiving a first source document, automatically:
creating a first parent document based on the first source document,identifying multiple elements within the first source document,creating a first plurality of subdocuments that are separate from the first parent document and the first source document,for each element of the multiple elements:
storing said each element in a different subdocument of the first plurality of subdocuments;creating and storing, in the first parent document, a link to the different subdocument,storing data that identifies the first parent document and the first plurality of subdocuments as a particular compound document; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.