Structural Patterns for Descriptive Documents

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. Key words: Patterns, grammars, descriptive schemas, completeness.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICWE
• Authors: Antonina Dattolo, Angelo Di Iorio, Silvia Duca, Antonio Angelo Feliziani, Fabio Vitali
• Keywords: Difficult Task, ICWE 2007, Validation Languages, Web Documents