Aspects on XML Document Content Reuse in Organizaotins

Designing the reuse of information residing in documents is more complex than for information in databases. Document content is designed for humans and organized with regard to communicational purposes for organizational work. In addition, content organization within documents is affected by the requirements of multichannel publishing and layout design for content presentation. Efficient content reuse in organizational documents requires that the ways the content is created and stored within and across documents and other content resources, such as databases, should be identified. XML provides technological means for document content reuse. The designers of XML document production need to be aware of the requirements for content reuse in order to facilitate reuse across XML documents and other content sources. This paper describes the content reuse identified in two e-government cases and proposes a classification of document content reuse types. The impacts for XML schema and document production design are also discussed.