Using XML for Supplemental Hypertext Support

  • Authors:

  • Chao-Min Chiu;Michael Bieber

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, 1 University Rd. Yenchao, Kaohsiung, Taiwan cmchiu@ccms.nkfu.edu.tw;Collaborative Hypermedia Research Laboratory, Computer and Information Science Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102, USA bieber@njit.edu

  • Venue:
  • Information Technology and Management
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Our overall research goal is providing hypertext functionality through the WWW to hypertext-unaware information systems with minimal or no changes to the information systems. Information systems dynamically generate their contents and thus require some mapping mechanism to automatically map the generated contents to hypertext constructs (nodes, links, and link markers) instead of hypertext links being hard-coded over static contents. No systematic approach exists, however, for building mapping routines to create useful links that give users direct access to the ISs' primary functionality, give access to metainformation about IS objects, and enable annotation and ad hoc (user-declared) linking. This paper contributes a procedure for analyzing ISs and building mapping routines that supplement information systems with hypertext support. This paper also contributes an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) DTD that declares a set of elements and attributes for representing mapped information in a human-readable, machine-readable, structured, and semantic way. We implemented a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of using XML to represent mapped information.