Representation and description of software documents

A software development environment maintains all the documents produced in the software development process. The representation of the software documents should capture not only the individual documents but also their relationships and structural properties. In this paper, we present an approach to the representation and description of software documents. Syntax trees, structural relations and structural constraints are introduced to capture the syntactic structures of documents, their inter- and intra-document relationships, and the structural properties of these documents and relationships.<
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