COMPOUND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPOUND DOCUMENT STRUCTURE MANAGING METHOD

A compound document management system comprises a compound document object holding unit for holding a compound document object and a schema object generating unit for generating a schema object and applying the same to a compound document object, the schema object including a structuring rule table in which structuring rules defining a possible structure of relations of objects are accumulated and a rule searching means for checking a possibility/impossibility of relating of a data object with reference to the structuring rule table, in which the compound document object inquires of the rule searching means whether relating of objects in a desired relation is possible or not and only when the relating is possible, the schema object executes the relating of the objects in question.