Document component management
None of the approaches discussed so far exploit the (almost) unique characteristics of the XML document format. Apart from zoned-text searching, they treat XML documents as just another data format. Yet the structured nature of XML documents should allow individual sub-components to be isolated and individually exploited in various ways.
An author or editor wishing to amend one paragraph in a book should not need to check-out and open the entire book, or even one chapter of it. It should be possible to identify and access the required paragraph, check-out the paragraph and edit it in isolation, allowing other systems users to access neighbouring text blocks at the same time.
A document component management system ...
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