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For hypertext to be successful in the area of software engineering, it is necessary to have tools that can manipulate a hypertext of typed nodes, links, and composites. In several systems it is possible to define new application specific types. The type of a hypertext entity will be used to model the role of the entity in the overall hypertext. As part of a type description, one will often say what attributes the entity will have. This paper concerns itself with a different problem: how do we specify the domain specific constraints on the structure of the software hypertext. Much research in the area of hypertext has concerned itself with issues of navigation, and how to understand hypertext, both with and without types. This is the semantics of hypertext. Defining the legal structures of hypertext, which is the focus in this paper, can be seen as defining a hypertext syntax. Having a well defined structure of the hypertext will make it simpler to develop tools to manipulate the hypertext.
This work was in part supported by the Danish Natural Science Research Council, grant 9400911.
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Østerbye, K. (1996). Structural Constraints in Rich Hypertexts. In: Fraïssé, S., Garzotto, F., Isakowitz, T., Nanard, J., Nanard, M. (eds) Hypermedia Design. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3082-6_2
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