When editing Web pages, a user may desire to transform the documents as freely as with a word processor. But because Web documents must conform to a rigorous structure (defined by the HTML DTD), every transformation is not allowed and the editing system must perform some work to obtain valid HTML documents. This paper presents a solution to the problem of transforming the document structure in ...

The WWW has become a major publishing medium. To integrate synchronized multimedia in this environment in a seamless way we propose temporal extensions to HTML and an execution architecture to support these extensions. We have created a prototype using Java and adapted it to make it run in a standard browser.

We have been conducting an XP project for nearly two years. During this time, we have experimented with many tools and techniques for acceptance testing. Here we discuss the relative costs and benefits that we’ve found using a commercial testing tool, manually executed tests, and hand-coded Java tests. We will conclude with a discussion of Avignon, an XML-based extensible scripting language tha...

TEX4ht is a highly configurable system for producing hypertext from TEX-based sources. The system is distributed with a large set of configuration files. The most commonly used configurations are those supporting LATEX inputs and HTML, MathML, OpenOffice, and DocBook targets. The first part of the presentation will describe how the system can be used for different applications. ConTEXt is a new...