A STRUCTURED AUTHORING ENVIRONMENT FOR THE WORLD-WIDE-WEB

Authoring documents for the World-Wide Web is not always an easy task. Most authors either directly type HTML syntax with a text editor or convert files that they produce with various document preparation systems, but both methods pose problems. We propose another approach, based on a structured document editor, Grif. The main characteristics of HTML documents are analyzed and the extensions that these documents have imposed to the Grif editor are presented. With these extensions, Grif becomes a comfortable environment for authoring WWW documents, and it allows better and more rigorously structured documents to be produced. It also allows a smooth evolution towards SGML.