SYSTEM FOR USING TASK TABLES AND TECHNICAL DATA FROM A RELATIONAL DATABASE TO PRODUCE A PARSED FILE OF FORMAT INSTRUCTION AND A STANDARIZED DOCUMENT

A process for extracting data from a MIL-STD relational database, parsing and automatically processing the resultant output into a MIL-STD technical publication. The data extracted from the database is tagged, sorted and passed to a Parser program which produces several outputs. One output is a disk file which has encoded tags and control characters. The disk file is then processed into word processing syntax used in MIL-STD publications. Another output is a formatted pseudo technical publication which contains all relevant data in a style which resembles a technical manual. This pseudo technical publication allows the data to be reviewed and approved prior to processing the disk file data into a technical publication. A third output is a Task checklist.