Graphical Transformation of Multimedia XML Documents

  • Authors:

  • Kang Zhang;Da-Qian Zhang;Yi Deng

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Box 830688, MS EC31, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA kzhang@utdallas.edu;Coral Corporation, 1600 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Canada daqianz@coral.com;Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA yideng@utdallas.edu

  • Venue:
  • Annals of Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

As a commonly acceptable standard for guiding Web markup documents, XML allows the Internet users to create multimedia documents of their preferred structures and share with other people. The creation of various multimedia document structures, typically as trees, implies that some kinds of conversion mechanisms are needed for people using different structures to understand each other. This paper presents a visual approach to the representation and validation of multimedia document structures specified in XML and transformation of one structure to another. The underlying theory of our approach is a context-sensitive graph grammar formalism. The paper demonstrates the conciseness and expressiveness of the graph grammar formalism. An example XML structure is provided and its graph grammar representation, validation and transformation to a multimedia representation are presented.