METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT-BASED DOCUMENT SECURITY, ROUTING, AND ACTION EXECUTION

摘要

A method and system for determining document content based actions. A rule engine (101) is provided with a document (103) to be acted on, preferably in XML format. The rule engine (101) is also provided with a set of rules (105) and associated actions (107) to be taken upon special conditions. The document (103) is evaluated according to the rules (105) and the document contents, each of the rules is parsed into a parse tree. The document is further evaluated for populating the parse tree with at least a portion of the document contents. The portion of the actions to be initiated is selected based on the content-populated parse tree. Actions could include by way of example, security control or routing of the document.