"Document Engineering" is evolving as a new discipline for specifying, designing, and implementing the electronic documents that request or provide interfaces to business processes via Web-based services
Doing business requires both "publication-like" document types like brochures and technical manuals and "transactional" documents like purchase orders and invoices – so we need analysis and design methods that work for both ends of this "Document Type Spectrum"
Document Engineering can emphasize what these analysis and design approaches have in common rather than highlighting their differences
Designing, describing, and organizing components to facilitate their reuse
Assembling hierarchical document models that organize components according to the requirements of a specific context for information exchange
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The methodology we've systematized for Document Engineering seems to be interesting, learnable, and usable