9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transforms are stored in the local repository and are checked against a non-local repository for currency before application.
1. A computer-assisted method of transforming a document with semantic encoding destined for a target service, including: electronically requesting by target service identifier and receiving from an interface registry at least one target document version used by a target service from among a plurality of document versions in a document family; and electronically requesting by source and target document versions and receiving from a document family registry one or more transforms or references to transforms to be applied sequentially to convert a document from the source document version to the target document version.