< jargon > Multiple files output from some operation.
The term has been heard in use at Microsoft to describe the set of files output when Microsoft Word does "Save As a Web Page" or "Save as HTML ". The process can result in a main XML or HTML file , a graphic file for each image in the original, a CSS file , etc.
This can be an issue as XML can be used as the default format in Office 2000 , and document management systems can't yet cope with the relationship between the files in a thicket when checking in and out.
(2001-09-01)