An approach for textual authoring of hypermedia documents based on the use of programmatic visualization and hypertextual navigation

  • Authors:

  • Roberto Gerson de Albuquerque Azevedo;Bruno Seabra Lima;Carlos de Salles Soares Neto;Mário Meireles Teixeira

  • Affiliations:

  • PUC-Rio Rua Marquês de São Vicente, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil and UFMA, São Luís/MA, Brasil;PUC-Rio Rua Marquês de São Vicente, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil;PUC-Rio Rua Marquês de São Vicente, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil and UFMA, São Luís/MA, Brasil;UFMA, São Luís/MA, Brasil

  • Venue:
  • WebMedia '09 Proceedings of the XV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Authoring tools for hypermedia languages often provide visual abstractions that hide the source code from the author with the objective of simplifying and accelerating the development process. Among other drawbacks, these abstractions modify or even prevent the communication process between the author and the designer of the language, which has been designed to be streamlined and readable by its target audience. This paper presents a textual approach to hypermedia authoring that does not inherit these inconveniences, but also makes use of typographical accessories such as programmatic views and hypertextual navigation. By setting an environment for hypermedia authoring similar to the presentation engine of the source language, the proposed approach uses concepts known by the author and does not imply in cognitive overload. A case of use is exemplified by the NCL Eclipse authoring environment, toward for Nested Context Language, the standard for the Brazilian Digital TV System.