VEDD: A Visual Editor for Creation and Semi-Automatic Update of Derived Documents

Abstract

Document content is increasingly customised to a particular audience. Such customised documents are typically built by combining content from selected logical content modules and then editing this to create the custom document. A major difficulty is how to efficiently update these derived documents when the source documents are changed. Here we describe a web-based visual editing tool for both creating and semi-automatically updating derived documents from modules in a source library.