A method is provided for creating a print container with a series of
resident fixed documents. The method opens a user interface (UI). Using
the UI, a first plurality of elements stored in memory is selected and a
print container is created. The print container preserves a second
plurality of elements as separate entities in the print container. For
example, a print container may have an element hierarchy of jobs in the
print container, fixed documents in a job, and fixed pages in a fixed
document may be created. Elements are defined as print containers, fixed
documents, application-specific documents, page description language
(PDL) documents, extensible markup language (XML) paper specification
(XPS) fixed documents, or combinations of the above-mentioned elements.
In one aspect, the selected elements are extensible markup language (XML)
paper specification (XPS) fixed documents, which are preserved as
separate entities in an XPS container.