relevant documents may be identified and rendered in a selected context layout 0023 fig2 shows an example of a component based document search and retrieval system 110 according to a preferred embodiment of the invention the system 110 includes an user interface 112 a search unit 114 document storage 116 a document decomposer 118 a component library 120 a textual index unit 122 a results validator 124 and a document view assembly module 126 the document storage 116 contains different types of documents e g faqs 128 downloads 130 and apars 132 the document decomposer 118 distills individual components from each of the documents 128 130 130 and the components are stored in the component library 120 for example a typical faq 128 might include a title a problem statement a solution and optionally a reference link to additional information further these document components can be collected and assembled to form an faq document likewise a download document may include a title a solution an attachment and a reference table 1 is an example illustrating typical document components for several document types typically each of these components is tagged by a section subtitle in the original document each document type has its own set of sections according to predefined corporate templates the document decomposer 118 locates each tagged component extracts each located component and stores extracted components in the component library 120 then the individual components are indexed in the textual index unit 122 making each indexed component available for full text search a search is initiated with a query that specifies both search.