There are several products that generate documents in an automated fashion. What makes SoDA unique is how well it can regenerate a document. SoDA maintains consistency between the document and its source(s) through a process called Intelligent Document MergingTM. If you delete an object in the source domain, such as a class in Rose, SoDA will remove the section(s) of the document generated from that object. If you add to the source, SoDA will create a new section of the document in the proper location.
Consistency is only half the story of Intelligent Document Merging. The other half is how SoDA handles information that is not extracted from an outside source. SoDA lets you add descriptive text, including special formatting such as bulleted lists, equations, and even drawings. When a document is regenerated, SoDA updates the information taken from the domain(s) without affecting the user-added portions.
Another key feature of SoDA is its ability to regenerate a portion of a document. If you know you made a change to the source that affects just one paragraph in the document, you can choose to regenerate that one paragraph, which is much faster than regenerating your entire document every time.
SoDA enables you to generate documents as Word documents or as HTML documents. In Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, the generated HTML document can be saved as a Word document (with a .doc extension).
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