Making Structured Documents Active

SUMMARY Active documents result from a combination of some specific features in documents and some mechanisms in a document manipulation system. In this paper we present the possibilities offered by a structured model of documents and a structured editor for making active documents. Several applications are described (annotations, electronic indexes, cooperative editing, documents as user interfaces, etc.), which show how a document’s logical structure may be exploited for developing a variety of active document applications.

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