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Almost 14 years after its first public release, Ghostscript is still a commercially thriving, actively evolving, nearly-Open Source PDL interpreter. It has successfully evolved from its original function as a PostScript Level 1 previewer running on MS-...

Multimedia information encapsulated inside documents is more and more specific because its content is specified using domain vocabularies. Their integration in space and time to form a document implies transformation steps to produce "presentation ...

In this paper we discuss application of caT, which extends the Trellis Petri-net-based model of document/hypertext, towards specification of Web-browsable documents that respond to their reader's characteristics, browsing activities, use environment, ...

This article demonstrates how several of the general-purpose principles which have proved successful in the area of large-scale software development and maintenance are relevant to multimedia design. We present the Media Construction Formalism, MCF, ...

This paper highlights the results of a survey of software professionals. One of the goals of this survey was to uncover the perceived relevance (or lack thereof) of software documentation, and the tools and technologies used to maintain, verify and ...

The paper describes the use of an XML format to store and represent program source code. A new XML application, srcML (SouRCe Markup Language), is presented. srcML presumes a document view of source code where information about the syntactic structure ...

It can be said that "document exchange" is the "mother of all patterns" for business (and for e-business). Yet, by itself this view isn't sufficiently prescriptive. In this paper, we present additional perspectives or frameworks that make this ...

This paper proposes XConnector, a language for the creation of complex hypermedia relations with causal or constraint semantics. XConnector allows the definition of relations independently of which resources are related. Another feature is the ...

In the linking model of the World Wide Web each link is stored in the referring document within an attribute of the A tag. All the hyperlink defined this way can reference a single resource or a single fragment. With the evolution of Web technologies ...

Both content driven web authors and application designers may have their attention deviated from their main task when they have to be concerned with the generation of elaborated linking structures. This work aims to demonstrate how a metadata-enhanced ...

With the increasing popularity of storing content on the WWW and intranet in XML form, there arises the need for the control and management of this data. As this data is constantly evolving, users want to be able to query previous versions, query ...

After a brief introduction to the Circus programming language, we present a simple type set to model XML structures. We then describe a transformation that takes a mail as input and produces a reply, showing how subtyping is used in order to refine the ...

This paper formalizes the domain of tree-based XML processing and classifies several implementation approaches. The lazy approach, an original contribution, is presented in depth. Proceeding from experimental measurements, we derive a selection strategy ...

Documents are often marked up in XML-based tagsets to delineate major structural components such as headings, paragraphs, figure captions and so on, without much regard to their eventual displayed appearance. And yet these same abstract documents, after ...

In this paper we develop a syntax-directed approach to transformation of documents from one structure to another. The aim is to automate a transformation between two grammars that have common parts, although the grammars and names of elements may ...

Categorisation of digital documents is useful for organisation and retrieval. While document categories can be a set of unstructured category labels, some document categories are hierarchically structured. This paper investigates automatic hierarchical ...

Although XML Document Type Definitions provide a mechanism for specifying, in machine-readable form, the syntax of an XML markup language, there is no comparable mechanism for specifying the semantics of an XML vocabulary. That is, there is no way to ...

This paper describes a system for efficient storage, indexing and network transmission of images of historical documents. The documents are first decomposed into their features such as paper texture, colours, typewritten parts, pictures, etc. Document ...

Document assembly has turned out to be a convenient approach to corporate publishing and reuse of large collections of documents. Automated assembly of a document reduces the amount of human effort when creating customized documents consisting of ...

In this paper, we describe an example of the use of active contours for the reconstruction of degraded character images. Active contours were introduced fifteen years ago by Kass and al. [8], and have been widely used since then for segmentation purpose ...

Microfilm documents contain a wealth of information, but extracting and organizing this information by hand is slow, error-prone, and tedious. As an initial step toward automating access to this information, we describe in this paper an algorithmic ...