Authoring of web materials
Several different approaches to web authoring can be identified
- Writing the document in a markup language
- HTML - low level and non-extensible
- XML - requires subsequent transformations or specification of the document rendering
- Using a visual tool - a structure editor on top of the markup language
- Good for low skill users
- Difficult to manage large and complex materials
- Transforming the document from another format
- Will often result in a web edition of a paper document
- Difficult to make effective use of the WWW's hypertext potentials
- Writing the document in a programming language
- Potentially good for users with programming skills
- To be explored in this lecture
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