XML the automated document part 1: a handful of products for creating "active documents" are ensuring that data in digital documents is accurate, complete and created without a lot of fuss.

With fast-forward innovation in information technologies, each few years experts and laymen alike ne to pause and take stock of their nomenclature. Take "document," for instance. The latest merger of collection of laws and content known as "active" documents has injected a fresh concept into the accepted notion of digital documents--that of automated change. In the IDC (idc.com) research report, "Active Documents: Changing by what mode The Enterprise Works," Joshua Duhl defines this novel category of documents as "XML documents that combine highly structur XML with executable behavior [in of the like kind a way that] the collection of laws which may be XML itself or another scripting language,