Adaptive Hypermedia made simple using HTML/XML Style Sheet Selectors

Bry, François and Kraus, Michael (2002): Adaptive Hypermedia made simple using HTML/XML Style Sheet Selectors.

Abstract

This paper addresses enhancing HTML and XML with adaptation functionalities. The approach consists in using the path selectors of the HTML and XML style sheet languages CSS and XSLT for expressing content and navigation adaptation. Thus, the necessary extensions of the selector languages are minimal (a few additional constructs suffice), the processors of these languages can be kept almost unchanged, and no new algorithms are needed. In addition, XML is used for expressing the user model data like browsing history, browsing environment (such as device, location, time, etc.), and application data (such as user performances on exercises). The goal of the research presented here is not to propose novel forms or applications of adaptation, but instead to extend widespread web standards with adaptation functionalities. Essential features of the proposed approach are its simplicity and both the upwards and downwards compatibility of the extension.

• Item Type: Paper
• Form of publication: Preprint
• Faculties: Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics > Computer Science
• Subjects: 000 Computer science, information and general works > 004 Data processing computer science
• Annotation: Short version publ. in: Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web based systems ; second international conference, AH 2002, Málaga, Spain, May 2 - 31, 2002 ; proceedings / Paul De Bra ... (ed.). - Berlin: Springer, 2002. - (Lecture notes in computer science ; 2347)
• Language: English