Software document reuse with XML

`This paper looks into a generalized approach to reusing software artifacts (i.e., requirements, functional specifications, plans, designs, code, build scripts, test cases, installation scripts, user manuals, etc.). If we consider each sofware artifact as a "document" we can then provide the appropriate structure to the documents from,which we can perform the appropriate processing and reuse of the software artifacts (without limiting it to just code reuse). This approach takes advantage of the W3C Recommendation for structured documents called XML (eXtensible Markup Language). This paper also shows several uses of this approach applied to software development.