Representation of mark-up of master documents

A method comprising:

• displaying a master document of a document generation system, the master document comprising unconditional content, conditional content, and non-graphical mark-up which evaluates based on input to determine whether the conditional content is included in a customized document generated from the master document by the document generation system;
• selecting a portion of the master document comprising associated conditional content;
• analyzing the non-graphical mark-up associated with the selected portion of the master document;
• generating and displaying a graphical representation of how the non- graphical mark-up is related to the associated conditional content, including conditions under which the associated conditional content is included in the customized document;
• modifying the displayed graphical representation of the mark-up responsive to input;
• modifying the non-graphical mark-up of the master document in response to the modification of the graphical representation, thereby modifying how the non- graphical mark-up is related to associated conditional content in the master document;
• and
• responsive to deletion of the displayed graphical representation of the mark- up, causing the associated conditional content to become unconditional content in the master document.

An apparatus comprising:

• means for displaying a master document of a document generation system, the master document comprising unconditional content, conditional content, and non-graphical mark-up which evaluates based on input to determine whether the conditional content is included in a customized document generated from the master document;
• means for selecting a portion of the unconditional content of the master document;
• means for causing the selected portion of the unconditional content to become selected conditional content in the master document;
• means for generating and displaying a graphical representation of how the non-graphical mark-up is related to the selected conditional content in the master document, including conditions under which the selected conditional content is included in the customized document;
• means, responsive to modification of the displayed graphical representation, for modifying the non-graphical mark-up in the master document correspondingly, thereby modifying how the non-graphical mark-up is related to the selected conditional content in the master document;
• and
• means, responsive to deletion of the displayed graphical representation, for causing the selected conditional content to become unconditional content in the master document.