Authors: Baltasar Trancón y Widemann, Jacob Wieland, Markus Lepper
Tags: 2001, conceptual modeling
Designing and implementing modeling frontends for domains in which text is predominant (it may be informal, semi-formal or formal) can and should benefit from using the evolving standard mark-up languages (SMGML and XML), since standardization of interfaces, transmission and storage protocols as well as many valuable tools “come for free”. But the idiosyncratics of the existing mark-up concepts neither provide a structure clean enough to serve as foundation for syntax and semantics of exact modeling frontends, nor do they offer an input format feasible for text-based data maintanance. Direct Document Denotation (DDD) as presented in this paper tries to remedy these defects: (1) it abstracts from the rough edges of XML, (2) it realizes a practical frontend processor for denotation of structured documents with special considerations to disabled users and voice controlled input, — and (3) is described completely and mathematically precise as a small system of transformation relations. The theoretical basics and practical issues of DDD are discussed and a case study is reported.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45581-7_34
