Lightweight Personalization of XML E-learning Materials

Nowadays, high quality e-learning materials do not only have to provide high quality content, but must be also highly personalizable, in terms of the view and content, as well as the abilities and preferences of the client (reader, student). This paper offers several lightweight easy to use XSLT-based solutions suitable for customizing and personalizing of both content and the presentation of e-learning materials based on XML sources. These solutions can be easily used as a part of a complex legacy LMS or they can be used independently wherever the basic XML related tools (like XML parser and XSLT engine) are available. This makes the proposed solution more generally applicable in contrast with legacy heavyweight web-based server-side presentation solutions like Apache Cocoon. The presumed domain of application of the proposed solutions are web-based Learning Management System (LMS) but it can be well used in any other kind of LMS - in either online, offline or combined systems.