  We report about the current state of development of a document suite and its
applications. This collection of tools for the flexible and robust processing
of documents in German is based on the use of XML as unifying formalism for
encoding input and output data as well as process information. It is organized
in modules with limited responsibilities that can easily be combined into
pipelines to solve complex tasks. Strong emphasis is laid on a number of
techniques to deal with lexical and conceptual gaps that are typical when
starting a new application.
