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eText: Document-Based Object Processing

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Pages: Object-Based Document Processing

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A presentation for Pages Software, Inc. * January 13, 1994

Introduction

What is eText?

Project Goals

Goals

eText is really about managing objects and happens to use a document model; Pages manages documents and happens to use an object model.

Mission Statement

Mission

eText is an extensible, document-based WYSYIWG hypermedia authoring system.

How is it like Pages?

Extensible Compound Document Framework

Complete WYSIWYG UI

Same Undo Framework

Pasteboard-Driven Dataflow

How does it differ?

Articulation vs. Filtering

Component-driven parsing & generation

Formatting vs. Tagging

Projecting visual cues into logical structure

Behavior vs. Structure

eText objects are completely defined by behavior; Pages objects can support internal structure (trees, lists)

Native hypertext features

Navigation and hyperlinking as integral notions

Directions: eText

HTML Input

Agents

oSpace

Visualizing Object Processing

Directions: Pages

tikORP

The Inverse Kit for Objects Residing in Pages

-- Ernest N. Prabhakar

Pages as integrating platform

How compelling is Pages as a universal container.

Structure-Driven Workflow

i.e. ``Enterprise-Object''-Based Document Processing

Integration Intiatives

Pasteboard Types

URL/URI Type

HTML text type

Extended entity maps

nügi advocacy

Seals of Approval?

User-driven standards

Interapplication Linking

``Managed HTML''

Shared DocInfos

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[Welcome]
See Also (Siblings):
[PostcardWare] [Why NeXTSTEP?] [Getting Started]
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