An inheritance model for documents in web applications with sydonie

Jean-Marc Lecarpentier (1) , Pierre-Yves Buard (1) , Hervé Le Crosnier (1) , Romain Brixtel (1)

1 Equipe Hultech - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072

Each web site has to manage documents tailored for its spe- cific needs. When building applications with a specific docu- ment model, web developers must make a choice: build from scratch or use existing tools with the need to accomodate the model. We propose an inheritance model for documents, implemented in the Sydonie open source web development framework. It offers a exible environment to create classes of documents. Sydonie's document model uses entity nodes inspired by the Functional Requirements for Bibliograph- ics Records (FRBR). Document content and metadata are modeled using a set of relations between entity nodes and at- tribute objects. Classes of documents or attribute types can be defined through a declarative XML file. Our inheritance model provides the possibility to define them at the frame- work level, application profile level or application level. This demonstration explains the document definition process and inheritance model implemented in the framework and gives several examples of its advantages.

Mots clés: Document Management System; Document Model; Composite Documents; Web Development Framework

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document

Jean-Marc Lecarpentier, Pierre-Yves Buard, Hervé Le Crosnier, Romain Brixtel. An inheritance model for documents in web applications with sydonie. 2012 ACM symposium on Document engineering (DocEng '12), Sep 2012, paris, France. pp.153-156, ⟨10.1145/2361354.2361390⟩. ⟨hal-01071178⟩