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@INPROCEEDINGS{Varela94zelig:schema-based,
    author = {Carlos A. Varela and Caroline C. Hayes},
    title = {Zelig: Schema-Based Generation of Soft WWW Database Applications},
    booktitle = {In Proc. W3 Conf},
    year = {1994},
    pages = {http://www.ri.bbsrc.}
}

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The World-Wide Web brings a global information universe into existence using available technology [Berners-Lee et al. 1992]. In order to fully realize the benefits of this information system, methodologies need to be developed for the creation of scripts that query existing databases and produce effective user interfaces. Present practice falls short of this goal in two areas; first, interface changes require direct modification of the scripts, and second, user interfaces are hard, in the sense that they don't adapt to database usage. We present Zelig, a schema-based approach to HTML document generation that addresses both these problems. First, Zelig uses ZHTML schemata, which are HTML documents commented with directives for document generation. And second, Zelig contains an expert module which gives advice regarding the underlying data structures and interface design issues. This approach allows soft or evolving database applications that keep track of usage and self-adapt to increase database efficiency and to improve human-computer interaction. As an example, we have used this approach to automatically generate four different WWW interfaces to the CCSO phone nameserver database software.

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