A product line approach to customized recipe generation

Document Product Lines (DPL) is an approach to variable content document generation based on the definition of document families that share parts of common content while differ in others. Following principles of the Software Product Line Engineering, the production of the different documents in a family is performed with a high degree of reuse of document components. In this paper, we have used DPL for the development of variable content recipe documents. We describe a flexible approach to recipe generation that allows the customization of recipe content in terms of different factors such as, user expertise, ingredients, and even delivery format.