An XML Based Solution to Delivering Adaptive Web Content for Mobile Clients

Due to mobile device proliferation, content providers can no longer deliver only one version of their content to the users, as they need to deliver an appropriate form of content depending on the capabilities of the viewing devices. Web authors either create multiple versions of the same content for each device, or depend on some intermediaries to do the transformation. In this paper, we propose two new approaches to the adaptive mobile content delivery based on the XML metadata. The first approach, called partiality adaptation, allows web authors to create one version of an XHTML page whose various parts could fit various devices. The second approach, called versioning negotiation, improves the efficiency of content negotiation by eliminating the resource description files. We further present our adaptation algorithms on both client and server side to reflect user intents. We also analyze the performance of our approaches based on three experiments conducted on different mobile devices.