Ensuring Query Compatibility with Evolving XML Schemas

During the life cycle of an XML application, both schemas and queries may change from one version to another. Schema evolutions may affect query results and potentially the validity of produced data. Nowadays, a challenge is to assess and accommodate the impact of theses changes in rapidly evolving XML applications. This article proposes a logical framework and tool for verifying forward/backward compatibility issues involving schemas and queries. First, it allows analyzing relations between schemas. Second, it allows XML designers to identify queries that must be reformulated in order to produce the expected results across successive schema versions. Third, it allows examining more precisely the impact of schema changes over queries, therefore facilitating their reformulation

Structured Templates for Authoring Semantically Rich Documents

International audienceStructured documents associate explicit semantics with content, but authoring rigorously structured documents is a very difficult task. We present a new approach to this issue that adds schema-level information to the popular web formats. This makes editing highly structured documents easier, while ensuring that documents are valid. It is also an easy way to publish semantically rich documents on the web. The impact of this approach on authoring tools is discussed and its implementation in the Amaya editor is briefly presented

Structures et modèles de documents

Ce texte a pour objet d'introduire la notion de structure de document. Il présente également les principales structures qui permettent la représentation des documents dans différentes normes et dans quelques systèmes informatique

NAC, une architecture pour l'adaptation multimédia sur le web

National audienceThe Web is evolving towards richer contents and diverse media that are accessed with different devices through multiple kinds of network. This heterogeneous, mobile and changing environment requires that multimedia information delivered by servers be adapted to the actual conditions of use. For that purpose, a number of methods, languages, formats and protocols are developed, especially by W3C. The NAC architecture presented in this article was designed and implemented based on these technologies, focusing on adaptation processing, on environment description models, on negotiation protocols, and on content transformations

Timesheets.js: When SMIL Meets HTML5 and CSS3

International audienceIn this paper, we explore different ways to publish multimedia documents on the web. We propose a solution that takes advantage of the new multimedia features of web standards, namely HTML5 and CSS3. To avoid the usual development of complex scripts for handling timing, synchronization and user interaction, we propose to complement HTML5 and CSS3 with SMIL Timesheets. This is made possible by a Timesheets scheduler that runs in the browser. Various applications based on this solution illustrate the paper, ranging from media annotations to web documentaries

Towards document engineering

This article compares methods and techniques used in software engineering with the ones used for handling electronic documents. It shows the common features in both domains, but also the differences and it proposes an approach which extends the field of document manipulation to document engineering. It shows also in what respect document engineering is different from software engineering. Therefore specific techniques must be developped for building integrated environments for document engineering

Authoring XML all the Time, Everywhere and by Everyone

International audienceThis article presents a framework for editing, publishing and sharing XML content directly from within the browser. It comes in two parts: XTiger XML and AXEL. XTiger XML is a document template specification language for creating document models. AXEL is a client-side Javascript library that turns the document template into a document editing application running in the browser. This framework is targeted at non XML speaking end users, since it preserves end users from XML syntax during editing. Its current implementation proposes a pseudo-WYSIWYG user interface where the document template provides a document-oriented editing metaphor, or a more form-oriented metaphor, depending on the template