xml-dev - Re: Website Description Markup

["L. C. Rees" <xanimal@eudoramail.com>]

The closest implementation to what you're looking for is probably XML Site-City Builder which utilizes an XLink extension and XSLT:

http://www.cogx.com/xml99/presAll.asp

eXtensible Web Modeling Framework, an academic effort to do sitemap and site modelling in RDF is here:

http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/xwmf/xwmf.html

NEC has submitted XML Document Navigation Language for describing navigation of documents and sub-documents.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-xdnl-20000323

Portable Site Information, with which I am associated, is useful for describing website structures, though its navigation contructs are all relative to avoid absolute links:

http://psilib.sourceforge.net/psintro.html

-lcr

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On Mon, 15 May 2000 11:27:33   Leigh Dodds wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is anyone aware of a markup language which allows the 
>description of a website, particularly its navigational 
>structure.
>
>I'm involved in rapidly prototyping an website, and it 
>occured to me that having a document which describes 
>the site structure (essentially a site map) would be 
>a useful starting point.
>
>XSLT could then be used to generate a plain HTML version 
>of the site to 'visualise' the desired structure.
>
>I'm not interested in capturing the content of the page, 
>other than perhaps a description of its function. At the 
>moment my focus is on navigational structure which I think 
>is an important foundation.
>
>I'd be interested to see what work others have done in 
>this area before I jump in myself.
>
>Cheers,
>
>L.
>
>
>-- 
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