Active tioga documents: an exploration of two paradigms
Douglas B. Terry, Donald G. Baker · 1990
This paper focuses on our extensions to the Tioga editor to support two very different styles of active documents. One paradigm involves dynamically computing, or at least transforming, the contents of a document as it is displayed. A second paradigm uses notifications of edits to a document to trigger activities. Document activities can include database queries, which are evaluated and placed in the document upon opening the document, or constraints between portions of a document, which are maintained as the user edits the document. The resulting active documents can be viewed, edited, filed, and mailed in the same way as regular documents, while retaining their activities.