Developing Content-Intensive Applications with XML Documents, Document Transformations and Software Components

  • Authors:

  • Jose Luis Sierra;Alfredo Fernandez-Valmayor;Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon;Antonio Navarro

  • Affiliations:

  • Dpto. Sistemas Informáticos y Programación Fac. Informática. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 28040,Madrid (Spain);Dpto. Sistemas Informáticos y Programación Fac. Informática. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 28040,Madrid (Spain);Dpto. Sistemas Informáticos y Programación Fac. Informática. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 28040,Madrid (Spain);Dpto. Sistemas Informáticos y Programación Fac. Informática. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 28040,Madrid (Spain)

  • Venue:
  • EUROMICRO '05 Proceedings of the 31st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper describes DTC (Documents, Transformations and Components), our approach to the XML-based development of content-intensive applications. According to this approach, the contents of an application and other customizable features (e.g. the properties of its user interface) are represented in terms of XML documents. In DTC, the software of the application is organized in terms of reusable components capable of processing specific markup languages. In addition, we use document transformations to fit components and documents together, because they can be reused from pre-existing repositories. In this paper, we describe the DTC approach, illustrating its application in a case study. Because DTC encourages the explicit separation between the description of the applicationýs variability (contents and other customizable features) and the applicationýs operational support, the approach improves maintainability and reuse at both the information and software levels.