An environment for maintaining computation dependency in XML documents

In the domain of XML authoring, there have been many tools to help users to edit XML documents. These tools make it easier to produce complex documents by using such technologies as syntax-directed or presentation-oriented editing, etc. However, when an XML document contains data with some computation dependency among them, these tools cannot free users from the burden of maintaining this dependency relationship. By computation dependency, we mean that some data are gotten by computing from other data in the same document. In this paper, we present an environment for authoring XML document, in which users can express the data dependency relationship in one document explicitly rather than implicitly in their minds. Under this environment, the dependent parts of the document are represented as expressions, which in turn can be evaluated to generate the dependent data. Therefore, users need not to compute the dependent data first and then input them manually, as required by the current ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: DOCENG
• Authors: Dongxi Liu, Zhenjiang Hu, Masato Takeichi
• Keywords: Computation Dependency, Dependency Relationship, DOCENG 2005, Document Analysis, XML Document