Combining expressiveness and plainness in the design of web documents is a difficult task. Validation languages are very powerful and designers are tempted to over-design specifications. This paper discusses an offbeat approach: describing any structured content of any document by only using a very small set of patterns, regardless of the format and layout of that document. The paper sketches out a formal analysis of some patterns, based on grammars and language theory. The study has been performed on XML languages and DTDs and has a twofold goal: coding empirical patterns in a formal representation, and discussing their completeness.
Structural patterns for descriptive documents / Dattolo A.; Di Iorio A.; Duca S.; Feliziani A.A.; Vitali F.. - STAMPA. - 4607:(2007), pp. 421-426. (Intervento presentato al convegno 7th International Conference, ICWE 2007 tenutosi a Como, Italy nel July 16-20, 2007).
Structural patterns for descriptive documents
DI IORIO, ANGELO;DUCA, SILVIA;FELIZIANI, ANTONIO ANGELO;VITALI, FABIO
2007
Abstract
Combining expressiveness and plainness in the design of web documents is a difficult task. Validation languages are very powerful and designers are tempted to over-design specifications. This paper discusses an offbeat approach: describing any structured content of any document by only using a very small set of patterns, regardless of the format and layout of that document. The paper sketches out a formal analysis of some patterns, based on grammars and language theory. The study has been performed on XML languages and DTDs and has a twofold goal: coding empirical patterns in a formal representation, and discussing their completeness.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
