Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Kouzou Ohi

Takeshi Yumura

Naoyuki Yoden

A method for processing a document wherein, on the transmission side, information is stored in the document for specifying an element of the document whose contents should be changed if necessary according to the conditions of a communication destination. A document processed according to the conditions of the transmission side is analyzed to extract the element of the document to be changed, and information indicating that the extracted element is the element whose contents are to be changed is attached to the extracted element and a document transmission is made. On the receiving side, information is stored for specifying an element whose contents should be changed if necessary according to the conditions of the receiving side and corrective information included with the contents is stored, so that the received document is analyzed and the element is extracted, and based on the stored corrective information the contents of the extracted element are changed according to the communication destination conditions. Furthermore, a machine translation apparatus is included which processes an HTML document that includes hyperlinks between translated sentences, words, etc. and the corresponding original sentences, words, etc. and/or the corresponding dictionary data.

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Kouzou Ohi