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Extensible Layout in Functional Documents

• Tags:
• processing,
• documents,
• component,
• layout

Overview Highly customised variable-data documents make automatic layout of the resulting publication hard. Architectures for defining and processing such documents can benefit if the repertoire of layout methods available can be extended smoothly and easily to accommodate new styles of customisation. The Document Description Framework incorporates a model for declarative document layout and processing where documents are treated as functional programs. A canonical XML tree contains nodes describing layout instructions which will modify and combine their children component parts to build sections of the final presentation. A variable and reference mechanism is included for resolving rendering interdependency and supporting component reuse.

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