Endless Documents: a Publication as a Continual Function

Lumley, John ; Gimson, Roger ; Rees, Owen

HP Development Company

关键词: XML;    XSLT;    SVG;    document construction;    functional programming;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2007-111R1

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

Variable data documents can be considered as functions of their bindings to values. The Document Description Framework (DDF) treats documents in this manner, using XSLT semantics to describe document functionality and a variety of related mechanisms to support layout, reference and so forth. But the result of evaluation of a function could itself be a function: can variable data documents behave likewise? We show that documents can be treated as simple continuations within that framework with minor modifications. We demonstrate this on a perpetual diary. Publication Info: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2007, 28-31 Aug.2007 Winnipeg, Canada 3 Pages