Title
A Descriptive Language for Information Object Reuse through Virtual Documents
Abstract
The importance of reuse is well recognised for electroni c document writing. However, it is rarely achieved satisfactorily because of the complexity o f the task: integrating different formats, handling updates of information, addre ssing document author's need for intuitiveness and simplicity, etc. In this paper, we pr esent a language for information reuse that allows users to write virtual documents, where dynamic information objects can be retrieved from various sources, transformed, and inc luded along with static information in SGML documents. The language uses a tree-like structure for the representation of information objects, and allows query ing without a complete knowledge of the structure or the types of information. The data structures and the syntax of the language are presented through an example ap plication. A major strength of our approach is to treat the document as a non-monoli thic set of reusable information objects.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1007/978-1-4471-1525-0_25
OOIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
data structure
Data structure,Tree representation,SGML,Information retrieval,Bibliographic Reference,Reuse,Computer science,Electronic document,Information object,Syntax
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
5.13
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anne-Marie Vercoustre133181.83
François Paradis26260.54