Proxima Components

In order to build Proxima, we need several components. The most important of these are:

• A language for mapping XML documents, structured according to a DTD, to presentations;
• A language for describing both presentations and computations. Since the editor is WYSIWYG, information about the corresponding position within the XML document of presentation elements has to be maintained;
• Algorithms for the efficient, on-line formatting of presentations;
• Efficient incremental evaluation algorithms, for example for parsing and presenting;
• A platform-independent window interface for presenting presentations;
• A scripting language for performing computations on documents;
• An interface for plugging in existing editors or other components.

The first four components require a substantial amount of research, the last three components require a substantial amount of engineering.

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-- MartijnSchrage - 01 Jul 2008