Document Engineering: Building Scalable Document By Reusing Components

Abstract

Building a new document needs the preparation of required information and finding the related written parts that have already identified from existing documents. In this paper, we outline the importance of structuring documents in order to facilitate the reuse of their content. We show how explicit structure representation facilitates the understanding of the original documents, identification of reusable existing parts and propose techniques to facilitate the configuration of the desired document. Our approach is based on Semantic Web Technologies, in particular, Variability Modelling reasoning with ontologies, and the idea of Active Documents extended with the adopted methods from Software Product Lines Engineering respectively.