Endless documents: A publication as a continual function

Citation: John Lumley, Roger Gimson, Owen Rees (2007) Endless documents: A publication as a continual function. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Document engineering (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.1145/1284420.1284463
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1145/1284420.1284463
Sci-Hub (fulltext): 10.1145/1284420.1284463
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Tagged: Computer Science (RSS) document engineering (RSS), needs improvement (RSS), desktop publishing (RSS), markup languages (RSS), layout (RSS), scholarly communication (RSS)

Summary

The paper views a document as an XML tree and presents a model for formatting an ongoing document. The Document Description Framework (which separates data and presentation) is the basis for the paper.

Theoretical and Practical Relevance

Documents may not be static. Examples given include medical records and diaries (e.g. blogs). Engineers need ways of publishing continual documents.