Method and apparatus for re-editing and redistributing web documents

摘要

An object of the present invention is to re-edit and redistribute a WWW document with services embedded therein according to a user's will. Portions of Web pages are extracted and combined together to compose a new document. If a portion to be extracted contains a dynamic content, its copy is kept alive, that is, the content of the copy is periodically updated. Object-oriented IntelligentPad technology is used to extract portions of Web documents and wrap them with a pad wrapper. The function of periodically accessing a server is included in the wrap of a dynamic Web document portion to compose an object called a view pad having an automatic, periodic refresh function.