Information management apparatus dividing files into paragraph information and header information linked to the paragraph information and recording medium thereof

A recording medium encoded with a program for managing an information file comprising a plurality of pieces of paragraph information and header information associated with the pieces of paragraph information according to a logical structure of the information file, said information management program comprising file dividing program instructions for:

• producing a plurality of paragraph files each including one or more of the pieces of paragraph information;
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• producing a header management file comprising header information and link information, the header information having been extracted from the information file and the link information indicating a link to at least one of the paragraph files including the paragraph information with which the extracted header information is associated by the logical structure of the information file.

An information management apparatus for a document server, said apparatus comprising:

• a management table generator extracting header information from an information file formatted in accordance with a markup language, the header information indicating a hierarchical structure of the information file;
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• a file divider generating based on hierarchical structure of the information file a plurality of paragraph files each including paragraph information from the information file and each having a link thereto from a header included in the header information.

A method of information management in a document server, the method comprising:

• extracting header information from an information file formatted in accordance with a markup language, the header information indicating a hierarchical structure of the information file;
• and
• generating based on the hierarchical structure the information file a plurality of paragraph files each including paragraph information from the information file and each having a link thereto from a header included in the header information.