The Document Factory facilitates a comfortable management of document sets which need to be continually revised and periodically published. Based on hierarchically structured templates, documents within such document sets can be automatically created by an evaluation process using the templates. The Document Factory can thereby help to reduce redundancies and to achieve a consistent structure or layout of the documents. The Document Factory also provides an "Export" function which may be invoked to transfer documents within such a document set to an FTP server. The Document Factory is particularly useful for -- but not restricted to -- Web Site management.