Breaking the shackles of the physical page: Site level authoring for XML using ASML.
Nick Shapiro, Charles B. Owen · World Conference on WWW and Internet · 1999
A major problem with web authoring today is the page-at-a-time HTML approach. As web sites grow larger and more complex, it is essential that tools treat the site as a single, large, hypermedia document. Even newer technologies such as XML are still shackled by this dependence on the physical page relationship. This poster describes the use of ASML site-level processing in conjunction with XML content to author web sites as a single hypertext document. ASML treats a web site as a single large hypermedia document. Within the structure of a site, content can be several modules, corresponding to a logical hierarchy of the data. This approach to authoring simplifies the production of sites that present content in different forms and allows for simpler management of link and final presentation format consistency.