Event points: annotating XML documents for remote sharing

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Beaudoux

  • Affiliations:
  • CER-ESEO, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Document engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Collaboration is heavily based on sharing documents. However, most groupware toolkits do not directly support document sharing, but rather focus on supporting mechanisms such as remote concurrent access to shared objects. We propose the notion of event point as a single and unified concept for defining sharing capabilities of XML documents and introduce four types of event points for real-time groupware: replication, copy, echo, and synchronization. These event points support such collaborative features as real-time sharing, synchronization, telepointing, localization, and echo. The paper presents the concept of event point, its implementation in the DoPIdom toolkit, and some sample uses in our Sovigo drawing tool.