XML documents production for an electronic platform of requests for proposals

Author

Bapst, Frédéric ; Vanoirbeek, Christine

Author_Institution

LITH-Media Group, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

330

Lastpage

335

Abstract

Addresses the problem of document production in the context of an electronic market application, namely a platform dealing with requests for proposals (RFP). Our project relies on XML as the leading technology, in accordance with a general trend in electronic commerce. The consequences of the RFP workflow on the document publishing requirements are motivated. Various aspects of the XML technology are discussed, with respect to both the present tools and developments which are expected soon. We describe our structuring approach and the two environments that we used as testbeds. The most challenging issues concern collaborative authoring, WYSIWYG software, the document life-cycle, and linking expressiveness

Keywords

authoring systems; desktop publishing; electronic commerce; groupware; hypermedia markup languages; WYSIWYG software; XML document production; collaborative authoring; document life-cycle; document publishing requirements; electronic commerce; electronic market application; electronic platform; linking expressiveness; requests for proposals; structuring approach; workflow; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Consumer electronics; Electronic commerce; Joining processes; Production; Proposals; Publishing; Testing; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliable Distributed Systems, 1999. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lausanne

ISSN

1060-9857

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0290-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RELDIS.1999.805119

Filename

805119