HDSML: an Hyper Document Structuring Meta Language
Abstract
In this paper, we propose an XML application for content authors, to help them write their hypertext documents in factorizing their common structures into classes, and to free them from all other design considerations. Moreover, our language allows authors to structure their documents homogeneously, and to add semantics into them at a fine grain level. The editor in charge of the global pedagogical document designs both structural models (classes), and presentation models for each sort of media (using HTML, WMLŠ). Using these models, our HDSML engine automatically builds the projection function able to transform any existing document into publishable forms.