Publication and customization of electronic documents using PANDA
Isabel F. Cruz, Gerard T. McGuire · 1999
The publication of conference proceedings and technical journals generates the need for a consistent format or set of admissible formats, easily enforceable across the submissions of the authors. In this paper we present an approach for the integration of electronic documents, which is part of a system called PANDA. Our approach has benefits for editors, authors, and readers: it easily allows the editor to provide multiple user interfaces with minimal overhead, while the authors can present their submissions using any of the permitted different formats, and the readers can choose one of these formats or define their own. The customization of the layout as provided by PANDA goes beyond that provided by widely available tailorable interfaces, such as MyYahoo!. Currently our approach works on HTML files but is general enough to accommodate XML or other formats in the future.