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[1] On the analysis of cascading style sheets Web engineering 1 / Geneves, Pierre / Layaida, Nabil / Quint, Vincent Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on the World Wide Web 2012-04-16 v.1 p.809-818

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Summary: Developing and maintaining cascading style sheets (CSS) is an important issue to web developers as they suffer from the lack of rigorous methods. Most existing means rely on validators that check syntactic rules, and on runtime debuggers that check the behavior of a CSS style sheet on a particular document instance. However, the aim of most style sheets is to be applied to an entire set of documents, usually defined by some schema. To this end, a CSS style sheet is usually written w.r.t. a given schema. While usual debugging tools help reducing the number of bugs, they do not ultimately allow to prove properties over the whole set of documents to which the style sheet is intended to be applied. We propose a novel approach to fill this lack. We introduce ideas borrowed from the fields of logic and compile-time verification for the analysis of CSS style sheets. We present an original tool based on recent advances in tree logics. The tool is capable of statically detecting a wide range of errors (such as empty CSS selectors and semantically equivalent selectors), as well as proving properties related to sets of documents (such as coverage of styling information), in the presence or absence of schema information. This new tool can be used in addition to existing runtime debuggers to ensure a higher level of quality of CSS style sheets.

[2] Timesheets.js: when SMIL meets HTML5 and CSS3 Multimedia presentations / Cazenave, Fabien / Quint, Vincent / Roisin, Cécile Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2011-09-19 p.43-52

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Summary: In this paper, we explore different ways to publish multimedia documents on the web. We propose a solution that takes advantage of the new multimedia features of web standards, namely HTML5 and CSS3. While JavaScript is fine for handling timing, synchronization and user interaction in specific multimedia pages, we advocate a more generic, document-oriented alternative relying primarily on declarative standards: HTML5 and CSS3 complemented by SMIL Timesheets. This approach is made possible by a Timesheets scheduler that runs in the browser. Various applications based on this solution illustrate the paper, ranging from media annotations to web documentaries.

[3] From templates to schemas: bridging the gap between free editing and safe data processing Tools / Quint, Vincent / Roisin, Cécile / Sire, Stéphane / Vanoirbeek, Christine Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2010-09-21 p.61-64

Keywords: XML, document authoring, document language, web editing

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Summary: In this paper we present tools that provide an easy way to edit XML content directly on the web, with the usual benefit of valid XML content. These tools make it possible to create content targeted for lightweight web applications. Our approach uses (1) the XTiger template language, (2) the AXEL Javascript library for authoring structured XML content and (3) XSLT transformations for generating XML schemas against which the XML content can be validated. Template-driven editing allows any web user to easily enter content while schemas make sure applications can safely process this content.

[4] Editing with style Extending document engineering formats / Quint, Vincent / Vatton, Irne Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2007-08-28 p.151-160

Keywords: CSS, document authoring, style languages, web editing

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Summary: HTML has popularized the use of style sheets, and the advent of XML has stressed the importance of style as a key area complementing document structure and content. A number of tools are now available for producing HTML and XML documents, but very few are addressing style issues. In this paper we analyze the requirements for style manipulation tools, based on the main features of the CSS language. We discuss methods and techniques that meet these requirements and that can be used to efficiently support web authors in style sheet manipulation. The discussion is illustrated by the recent developments made in the Amaya web authoring environment.

[5] Templates, microformats and structured editing Document editing for the web / Flores, Francesc Campoy / Quint, Vincent / Vatton, Irène Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2006-10-10 p.188-197

Keywords: document authoring, document models, document templates, microformats, semantic XHTML, structure editing, world wide web

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Summary: Microformats and semantic XHTML add semantics to web pages while taking advantage of the existing (X)HTML infrastructure. This approach enables new applications that can be deployed smoothly on the web. But there is currently no way to describe rigorously this type of markup and authors of web pages have very little help for creating and encoding semantic markup. A language that addresses these issues is presented in this paper. Its role is to specify semantically rich XML languages in terms of other XML languages, such as XHTML. The language is versatile enough to represent templates that can capture the overall structure of large documents as well as the fine details of a microformat. It is supported by an editing tool for producing documents encoded in a semantically rich markup language, still fully compatible with XHTML.

[6] Towards active web clients Document authoring, markup and manipulation 2 / Quint, Vincent / Vatton, Iréne Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2005-11-02 p.168-176

Keywords: XML documents, authoring, compound documents, style languages, web user agent

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Summary: Recent developments of document technologies have strongly impacted the evolution of Web clients over the last fifteen years, but all Web clients have not taken the same advantage of this advance. In particular, mainstream tools have put the emphasis on accessing existing documents to the detriment of a more cooperative usage of the Web. However, in the early days, Web users were able to go beyond browsing and to get more actively involved. This paper presents the main features needed to make Web clients more active and creative tools, by taking advantage of the latest advances of document technology. These features are implemented in Amaya, a user agent that supports several languages from the XML family and integrates seamlessly such complementary functionalities as browsing, editing, publishing, and annotating.

[7] Techniques for authoring complex XML documents Document creation II / Quint, Vincent / Vatton, Irône Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2004-10-28 p.115-123

Keywords: CSS, XML, authoring tools, compound documents, direct manipulation, structured editing, style languages

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Summary: This paper reviews the main innovations of XML and considers their impact on the editing techniques for structured documents. Namespaces open the way to compound documents; well-formedness brings more freedom in the editing task; CSS allows style to be associated easily with structured documents. In addition to these innovative features the wide deployment of XML introduces structured documents in many new applications including applications where text is not the dominant content type. In languages such as SVG or SMIL for instance XML is used to represent vector graphics or multimedia presentations.
This is a challenging situation for authoring tools. Traditional methods for editing structured documents are not sufficient to address the new requirements. New techniques must be developed or adapted to allow more users to efficiently create advanced XML documents. These techniques include multiple views semantic-driven editing direct manipulation concurrent manipulation of style and structure and integrated multi-language editing. They have been implemented and experimented in the Amaya editor and in some other tools.

[8] Le web de demain / Quint, Vincent Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine 2002-11-26 p.1-5

Languages: French

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Summary: Web technologies change very rapidly. Even if the latest developments are not yet visible in our day-to-day use, founding technologies of tomorrow's Web can already be identified. The XML revolution opens the door to new perspectives, specifically for presenting information and for interacting with Web applications and services. This article analyzes the most recent work related to Web multimedia, support for different devices, new interaction modes, and some other trends that will significantly change the way we use the Web.

[9] VXT: a visual approach to XML transformations Transformations and Experiences / Pietriga, Emmanuel / Vion-Dury, Jean-Yves / Quint, Vincent Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2001-11-09 p.1-10

Keywords: XML transformations, XSLT, circus, visual programming languages, zoomable user interfaces

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Summary: The domain of XML transformations is becoming more and more important as a result of the increasing number of applications adopting XML as their format for data exchange or representation. Most of the existing solutions for expressing XML transformations are textual languages, such as XSLT or DOM combined with a general-purpose programming language. Several tools build on top of these languages, providing a graphical environment. Transformations are however still specified in a textual way using the underlying language (often XSLT), thus requiring the user to learn the associated textual language.
We believe that visual programming techniques are well-suited to representing XML structures and make the specification of transformations simpler. We present a visual programming language for the specification of XML transformations in an interactive environment, based on a zoomable user interface toolkit. Transformations can be run from the application or exported to two target languages: XSLT and Circus, a general-purpose structure transformation language designed by the second author and briefly introduced in this paper.

[10] EDITED BOOK Groupware and Authoring / Rada, Roy 1996 p.369 Academic Press

ISBN: 0-12-575005-6

1. Introduction
2. A Review of Collaborative Authoring Tools
	+ Michailidis, Antonios
	+ Rada, Roy
3. Collaborative Authoring Dynamics
	+ Chen, Chaomei
	+ Rada, Roy
4. A Portrait of the Author as an Interacting Group
	+ Oravec, Jo Ann
5. Coordination and Reuse
	+ Rada, Roy
6. The Effectiveness of Simple Shared Electronic Workspaces
	+ Olson, Gary M.
	+ Olson, Judith S.
7. Computer-mediated Communication for Intellectual Teamwork: An Experiment in Group Writing
	+ Galegher, Jolene
	+ Kraut, Robert E.
8. Learning to Write Together
	+ Posner, Ilona
	+ Mitchell, Alex
	+ Baecker, Ronald
9. Flexible Diff-ing in a Collaborative Writing System
	+ Neuwirth, Christine M.
	+ Chandhok, Ravinder
	+ Kaufer, David S.
	+ Erion, Paul
	+ Morris, James
	+ Miller, Dale
10. Collaborative Writing with Synchronous and Asynchronous Support Environments
	+ Sasse, Martina Angela
	+ Handley, Mark James
11. Using Multimedia to Support Cooperative Editing
	+ Santos, A.
	+ Tritsch, B.
12. SEPIA: A Cooperative Hypermedia Authoring Environment
	+ Streitz, Norbert
	+ Haake, Jorg
	+ Hannemann, Jorg
	+ Lemke, Andreas
	+ Schuler, Wolfgang
	+ Schutt, Helge
	+ Thuring, Manfred
13. Structured and Distributed Cooperative Editing in a Large Scale Network
	+ Decouchant, Dominique
	+ Quint, Vincent
	+ Salcedo, Manuel Romero
14. A Three-Level Binding for Collaborative Editing Semantics
	+ Stotts, David
	+ Dewan, Prasun
	+ Munson, Jonathan
	+ Navon, Jaime
15. SAGE: A High Structure System for Helping Teams Find Wisdom (within themselves)
	+ Capron, Michael
	+ Desimone, Jacqueline
	+ Lacomis-Cote, Karen
16. Multimedia and Multi-party Desktop Conference System: MERMAID as Groupware Platform
	+ Sakata, Shiro
	+ Maeno, Kazutoshi
	+ Fukuoka, Hideyuki
	+ Abe, Toyoko
	+ Mizuno, Hiromi

[11] Structured Cooperative Editing and Group Awareness I.12 Collaboration 3 / Decouchant, Dominique / Quint, Vincent / Salcedo, Manuel Romero Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 1995-07-09 v.I. Human and Future Computing p.403-408

Summary: Cooperative editing is an important field in CSCW. Many editors have been developed or extended to allow several users to work simultaneously on shared documents. At the same time, an important research activity is carried out in the field of structured documents. Cooperative editing and structured documents share many common issues and it seems natural to take advantage of the advances in these two fields for constructing new tools that allow users to cooperate in producing complex structured documents.
    This paper presents the main features of Alliance, a cooperative asynchronous structured editor that we have developed with that approach. This application allows several users distributed on a local area network to cooperate for producing documents in a structured way. An early version of Alliance is described in [1].
    As in any groupware application, group awareness is a key issue in a cooperative editor [2] [9]. Group awareness allows each user to be informed of the work done by the others; it also allows him/her to decide how and when his/her own contribution should be shown to others. In the rest of this paper, we focus on the principles of Alliance group awareness, which is based on active icons that indicate the status of shared document fragments.
    In the next section, we present the principles of structured editing and Grif, the structured editor on which Alliance is based. Section 2. discusses main issues in cooperative editing. Section 3. focuses on group awareness and explains it relation to document structure. Finally, the perspectives of this work are presented.

[12] Combining Hypertext and Structured Documents in Grif Systems I / Quint, Vincent / Vatton, Irene Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Hypertext 1992-11-30 p.23-32

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Summary: This paper presents the experience gained in developing and using the hypertext functions of the Grif system. Grif is a structured document editor based on the generic structure concept: each document is represented in the system by its logical structure which is an instance of a generic structure. This notion of logical structure encompasses both hierarchical structures (as is usual in structured documents) and non-hierarchical links (as is usual in hypertext).
The document model on which Grif is based is presented, focusing on the different types of links. Various applications using these links are also described. It is shown that the approaches of electronic documents and hypertext, which are often opposed to each other, can be combined for building more powerful integrated systems.

[13] Combining Hypertext and Structured Documents in GRIF Demonstrations / Quint, Vincent Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Hypertext 1992-11-30 p.290

Summary: GRIF is a structured document editor based on the generic structure concept: each document is represented in the system by its logical structure which is an instance of a generic structure. This notion of logical structure encompasses both hierarchical structures and non-hierarchical links. The demonstration shows the integration of hypertext features in structured documents and some applications.

[14] Hypertext and Electronic Publishing Panels / Furuta, Richard / Brown, Heather / Newcomb, Steven R. / Minio, Roberto / Quint, Vincent / Rada, Roy / Welsch, Laurence A. Proceedings of the ECHT'90 European Conference on Hypertext 1990-11-27 p.347-353

Keywords: Hypertext models and standards, Structured document models and standards

Summary: The underlying models of hypertext and of structured documents are quite similar in many ways. The charter of this panel is to examine the similarities and differences between the models and to consider the applicability of document standards such as SGML, ODA, etc., to hypertext.

[15] Towards Document Engineering / Quint, Vincent / Nanard, Marc / Andre, Jacques Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation & Typography 1990-09-18 p.17-29

Keywords: Software engineering, Document engineering, Structured editing, Integrated environments

Summary: This article compares methods and techniques used in software engineering with the ones used for handling electronic documents. It shows the common features in both domains, but also the differences and it proposes an approach which extends the field of document manipulation to document engineering. It shows also in what respect document engineering is different from software engineering. Therefore specific techniques must be developed for building integrated environments for document engineering.

[16] An Abstract Model for Interactive Pictures 3. Human-Computer Interface Design: 3.6 Graphics in Human-Computer Interaction / Quint, Vincent / Vatton, Irene Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT'87: Human-Computer Interaction 1987-09-01 p.643-647

Summary: This paper presents the user interface tool kit developed for Grif, an interactive system for structured document manipulation. We focus on those concepts which led to the design of this package and to their application in a document production system.
The tool kit provides features which allow display of the visual aspect of documents and which handle user interaction. Most of these features are based on an abstract description of the pictures to be displayed and through which the user interacts with the application. Pictures are described in terms of boxes defined through position and dimension constraints. It is shown that this representation leads to device independence, user tailorability and a high level of interactivity.