Abstract
Abstract: The production process of documents was deeply transformed according to the information technology influence on the document writing activities. The wide use of personal computer produced a transformation in the document creation process. It is becoming deeply a process of transformation and aggregation of documents. The different phases of this process are becoming more rapid than in the past, due to the re-usability of the available documents by means of the cut and paste functionalities. The documents creation process is losing its characteristic of linear process, and it is assuming its characterisation of co-operative process, which involves different users devoted to compose shapes and information of the existing documents, and/or transformation of part of them. The Internet diffusion is improving transformation of the document production process according to a co-operative approach. Indeed Internet makes it available a large and growing amount of information, and focuses its attention on global information starting from local information. Locally and globally available information may be used to form a new document according to the copyright problems. It is not however easy to retrieve and organise the very large amount of information potentially available in Internet according to the author's information goals. In this context the need grew up of tools for editing and searching documents, that enable to automatically create personalised working document starting from documents. The aim of the present paper is to define an approach for the documents on-line driven creation, starting from the definition of their structures using shapes and semantics of their information.