Catching the boat with Strudel: experiences with a Web Site management system.
Mary Fernández, Daniela Florescu, Jaewoo Kang, Alon Y. Levy, Dan Mircea Suciu · 1998
Managing Web sites is a tedious data-management task, because today's Web sites often are derived from multiple data sources and have complex structures. To simplify these tasks, Web-site builders need tools for managing Web sites' content and structure. The Strudel system applies concepts from database management systems to the process of building Web sites. The key idea is separating the management of the site's data, the creation and management of the site's structure, and the graphical presentation of the site's pages. First, the site builder creates a uniform model of all the data available at the site. Second, the site builder uses this model to declaratively define the Web site's structure by applying a "site-definition query" to the underlying data. The result of evaluating this query is a "site graph", which represents both the site's content and structure. Third, the site builder specifies the graphical presentation of pages in Strudel's HTML-template language. The data model...