XML based text TV

Author

Vuorimaa, Petri ; Sancho, César

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Software & Multimedia Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

109

Abstract

Text TV is one of the most important services of the forthcoming digital television. In this article, we discuss how text TV can be implemented using XML. The content is defined using XML, while the spatial and procedural relationships of the media elements are defined using XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) and ECMAScript (European Computer Manufacturers´ Association Scripting language), respectively. This approach allows the display of the text TV content in an XML browser. Since digital television set-top boxes (i.e. receivers) won´t have a XML browser in the near future, a separate Java application was also designed to display the content. The spatial and procedural relationships of the media component are then pre-defined within the Java application. Our approach allows the development of the text TV content using XML and its display in both the Internet and the digital TV environment

Keywords

Internet; Java; authoring languages; digital television; hypermedia markup languages; teletext; television applications; ECMAScript; Extensible Stylesheet Language; Internet; Java application; XML browser; XML-based text TV; XSL; digital television; media elements; procedural relationships; set-top boxes; spatial relationships; text TV content display; Blanking; Digital TV; Digital audio broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; Displays; Graphics; Java; Streaming media; TV broadcasting; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Information Systems Engineering, 2000. Proceedings of the First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0577-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WISE.2000.882381

Filename

882381