XML as a dynamic UI and database access customization mean

Author

Guetari, Ramzi

Author_Institution

SmartWave SA, Switzerland

Volume

5

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

4840

Abstract

In this paper, we present our experiments in designing and implementing a dynamic user interface (UI) based on XML configuration files. Indeed, users usually need to customize software UI as they used to do. This customization includes of course the UI localization. We have developed a DTD that may help/guide developers to design and implement dynamic UIs. We also have specified a method that leads developers to build software using an XML based UI configuration. This paper introduces dynamic UIs as well as some languages dedicated to dynamic user interface generation. Then we present our own needs and explain why we have chosen XML as a solution to dynamically customize applications. We also present the architecture of our application as well as the implementation guidelines.

Keywords

XML; content management; user interfaces; Web applications; XML configuration files; content management; database access customization mean; dynamic user interface; user interface localization; Application software; Cascading style sheets; Computer languages; Databases; HTML; Java; Operating systems; User interfaces; Web sites; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7952-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1245749

Filename

1245749