Since many years I am interested in Requirement Engineering and documentation for the development process (especially UML). This needs of course to create documents. Often, to create documents they must be written by hand using some office software (like OpenOffice). That seems normal, but documents in a company environment must have a defined format, must contain defined things. On the graphical side - the UML part for example - the writer have to bother with good visible layout and design.
So I dreaming of a system which could render documents like Requirments, Testplans or even diagrams. Well, some bigger software on the CASE market can this, so it is possible to form Microsoft Office documents from data base entries. As far as I know, they are mostly based on templates. But I want my own flexible render engine, which works more with design rules and a meta model of documents than with templates. Or in other words, I want to stress the point of *rendering*.
Because all moderen office software uses XML for storing their documents, document rendering can be done in any language, and I have of course some special of them in mind (Erlang, Smalltalk.
At my new job, I have to create a lot of documents, so I hope I can build a little bit during my work.
