Meißner, E.E.Meißner2022-03-092022-03-091999https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/333592Workflow: In actual documentation projects many authors are involved. They are organized in several teams, each with its own capabilities and knowledge. The work is defined in some kind of workflow. In most cases this is done on paper, because of the lack of tools organizing the work in a flexible way. n complex authoring environments the usage of XML with its richer structure is a real advantage. But there is an almost infinite number of possiblities for our structure. If we add a DTD (like in SGML) to our XML-environment we can control the almost infinite number possibilities. The author of our multimedia documents can then only build multimedia documents belonging to one DTD by paying attention to their rules. But sometimes there are some more complex rules for our multimedia documents that we cannot describe in the DTD. Structure rules: If we think about the complex world of a XML-web with several different multimedia-entities, authored and maintained from a distributed authoring team, we see a lot of complex rules behind this XML-web, but there is a lack in describing these rules. Therefore we built a graphic interactive system to describe such rules of the logical structure and the content of the element structure in a XML-web with additional multimedia content. Workflow trigger: Workflow-actions can then be build upon the finer granularity of XML-documents. Each elements can be a trigger or a destination for a workflow-event.enWorkflowStructure rulesWorkflow trigger006conference paper