A framework for structure, layout &amp; function in documents

Lumley, John; Gimson, Roger; Rees, Owen

doi:10.1145/1096601.1096615

Cited by 39 publications

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“…The research by Lumley et al [20], discussing a framework for structure, layout and function in documents, has been cited by researches dealing with aspects of documentation and presentation. The recent work by Boyer [3], discussing standards for interactive office documents, has been read by researchers interested in multimedia, presentation and documentation.…”

Section: Document Engineering: Reviewing a Few Abstractmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Document engineering approaches toward scalable and structured multimedia, web and printable documents

Pimentel

Bulterman

Soares

2009

Multimed Tools Appl

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Document engineering is the computer science discipline that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. As with the relationship between software engineering and software, document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, and maintain documents (http://www.documentengineering.org). The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering is an annual meeting of researchers active in document engineering: it is sponsored by ACM by means of the ACM SIGWEB Special Interest Group. In this editorial, we first point to work carried out in the context of document engineering, which are directly related to multimedia tools and applications. We conclude with a summary of the papers presented in this special issue.

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Section: Document Engineering: Reviewing a Few Abstractmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Work related to authoring and to the automatic generation of documents explores several approaches, including transformations [24,25], structure [5,6,13] and layout [20], authoring [9,25,35] and browsing [8], and annotations [4,14].…”

Section: Document Engineering: Reviewing a Few Abstractmentioning

confidence: 99%

Document engineering approaches toward scalable and structured multimedia, web and printable documents

Pimentel

Bulterman

Soares

2009

Multimed Tools Appl

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“…A previous paper [1] has introduced the idea of preparing material for Variable Data Printing (VDP) using an XML-based workflow starting with a document expressed in Document Description Format (DDF) and then transforming it using XSLT. With the help of an XSLT-based layout engine, a final version of each printable instance is generated, as SVG output.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimized reprocessing of documents using stored processor state

Ollis

Brailsford

Bagley

2010

Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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Variable Data Printing (VDP) allows customised versions of material such as advertising flyers to be readily produced. However, VDP is often extremely demanding of computing resources because, even when much of the material stays invariant from one document instance to the next, it is often simpler to reevaluate the page completely rather than identifying just the portions that vary.In this paper we explore, in an XML/XSLT/SVG workflow and in an editing context, the reduction of the processing burden that can be realised by selectively reprocessing only the variant parts of the document. We introduce a method of partial re-evaluation that relies on re-engineering an existing XSLT parser to handle, at each XML tree node, both the storage and restoration of state for the underlying document processing framework. Quantitative results are presented for the magnitude of the speed-ups that can be achieved.We also consider how changes made through an appearance-based interactive editing scheme for VDP documents can be automatically reflected in the document view via optimised XSLT re-evaluation of sub-trees that are affected either by the changed script or by altered data.

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“…Tools such as HP's Document Definition Format (DDF) [5,6] are providing new abstractions about VDP documents and how to design and program them. At a lower level, technologies such as PPML [7] (Personalized Print Markup Language) or COGs [8,9] (Component Object Graphics) provide new methods of describing documents that encourage reuse of common components by describing the whole page in terms of blocks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%