US 2003/0198850 A1 · Structured document mapping apparatus and method

Abstract

A structured document mapping apparatus that correlates items included in text document data inputted to items of hierarchical document having attributes and a structure. The structured document mapping apparatus refers to at least one of a standard taxonomy and a corporation-unique taxonomy, and automatically maps the items of the input text document according to the rules stored in a search database and creates an XBRL document that corresponds to attributes and structure of the standard taxonomy or the corporation-unique taxonomy.

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A structured document mapping apparatus that correlates items included in text document data to items of hierarchical document having attributes and/or a structure, the structured document mapping apparatus comprising:

a program that is readable by the structured document mapping apparatus;
a storage medium that stores level data for the items of the hierarchical document, each level data indicating a level of each of the items among the hierarchical document and parent-child relation data that indicates a hierarchical relation of one of the items with other of the items among the hierarchical document;
an input device that accepts input of the items of the text document in an order according to a predetermined relation among the items;
a processor that is connected to the storage medium and that searches according to the program for the items of the hierarchical document that correspond to the respective items of the text document inputted by the input device in accordance with a process comprising the steps:
detecting a first level data among the level data and a first parent-child relation data among the parent-child relation data for a first item among the items of the hierarchical document that corresponds to a first item among the items of the text document that has been input immediately before a second item among the items of the text document;
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searching as a search object for an item, having level data and parent-child relation data having a predetermined relation with the detected first level data and the first parent-child relation data, among the items of the hierarchical document that corresponds to the second item of the text document.

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A structured document mapping method that correlates items included in text document data to items of hierarchical document having attributes and/or a structure, the structured document mapping method comprising the steps of:

storing level data for the items of the hierarchical document, each level data indicating a level of each of the items among the hierarchical document and parent-child relation data that indicates a hierarchical relation of one of the items with other of the items among the hierarchical document;
accepting input of the items of the text document in an order according to a predetermined relation among the items;
detecting a first level data among the level data and a first parent-child relation data among the parent-child relation data for a first item among the items of the hierarchical document that corresponds to a first item among the items of the text document that has been input immediately before a second item among the items of the text document;
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searching as a search object for an item, having level data and parent-child relation data having a predetermined relation with the detected first level data and the first parent-child relation data, among the items of the hierarchical document that corresponds to the second item of the text document.

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A structured document mapping apparatus that correlates items included in text document data to items of hierarchical document, the structured document mapping apparatus comprising:

a storage device that stores level data for the items of the hierarchical document, each level data indicating a level of each of the items among the items of the hierarchical document and parent-child relation data that indicates a hierarchical relation of one of the items with other of the items of the hierarchical document;
an input device that accepts input of the items of the text document in an order according to a predetermined relation among the items;
and
a device that detects a first level data among the level data and a first parent-child relation data among the parent-child relation data for a first item among the items of the hierarchical document that corresponds to a first item among the items of the text document that has been input immediately before a second item among the items of the text document;
a search device that searches as a search object for an item, having level data and parent-child relation data having a predetermined relation with the detected first level data and the first parent-child relation data, among the items of the hierarchical document that corresponds to the second item of the text document.

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A structured document mapping method that correlates items included in text document data to items of hierarchical document, the structured document mapping method comprising the steps of:

storing level data for the items of the hierarchical document, each level data indicating a level of each of the items among the items of the hierarchical document and parent-child relation data that indicates a hierarchical relation of one of the items with other of the items of the hierarchical document;
detecting a first level data among the level data and a first parent-child relation data among the parent-child relation data for a first item among the items of the hierarchical document that corresponds to a first item among the items of the text document that has been input immediately before a second item among the items of the text document;
and
searching for an item among the items of the hierarchical document that corresponds to the second item of the text document.

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#1. Field of the Invention

#The present invention relates to a mapping technology for structured documents, and to a technology that uses structured documents in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language). More particularly, the present invention also relates to a structured document mapping apparatus and method that uses structured documents in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) in the field of accounting.

#2. Description of Related Art

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#FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a mapping/creating system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

#FIG. 2 shows an example of data that is input according to the present invention.

#FIG. 3 shows an example of an XBRL document/taxonomy document that is created according to the present invention.

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#An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram indicating the structure of a mapping and creating system 100 in accordance with an embodiment of the present embodiment. The operations of this system will be described later. Only the components are described for now. The present system can be realized using a normal computer having at least a processor, a bus, a memory and a storage. In addition, this system, like normal computers, can be connected to networks including the Internet.

#Items of accounts 101 are financial information that is input via an input device. The financial information is a text document and includes, for example, information 210 and 220 shown in FIG. 2. The items of accounts 101 include items of accounts with values (210) and items of accounts without values (220). Each of the items of accounts 101 has an order relationship that indicates its order position in relation to current assets, cash and deposit or long-term credits.

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