Writing Structured and Semantics-Oriented Documents: {TeX} vs {XML}

Jean-Michel Hufflen (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

Using XML-like syntax for documents gives them a tree structure, inducing a notion of structured document. Defining domain-dependent tags introduces a notion of semantics-oriented writing. These two points result in a new view about document production. In fact, they have already existed within TeX, but in another shape. This article aims to point out these notions and the differences between them. It ends with some proposals about the evolution of the tools belonging to TeX's world.

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Modélisation et simulation

Jean-Michel Hufflen. Writing Structured and Semantics-Oriented Documents: {TeX} vs {XML}. Biuletyn {GUST}, 2006, pp.104--108. ⟨hal-00644460⟩