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Designing and implementing modeling frontends for domains in which text is predominant (it may be informal, semi-formal or formal) can and should benefit from using the evolving standard mark-up languages (SMGML and XML), since standardization of interfaces, transmission and storage protocols as well as many valuable tools “come for free”.
But the idiosyncratics of the existing mark-up concepts neither provide a structure clean enough to serve as foundation for syntax and semantics of exact modeling frontends, nor do they offer an input format feasible for text-based data maintanance.
Direct Document Denotation (DDD) as presented in this paper tries to remedy these defects: (1) it abstracts from the rough edges of XML, (2) it realizes a practical frontend processor for denotation of structured documents with special considerations to disabled users and voice controlled input, — and (3) is described completely and mathematically precise as a small system of transformation relations.
The theoretical basics and practical issues of DDD are discussed and a case study is reported.
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Lepper, M., Widemann, B.T.y., Wieland, J. (2001). Minimize Mark-Up! Natural Writing Should Guide the Design of Textual Modeling Frontends. In: S.Kunii, H., Jajodia, S., Sølvberg, A. (eds) Conceptual Modeling — ER 2001. ER 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2224. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45581-7_34
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