Web Modeling Language (WebML): a modeling language for designing Web sites (2000)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ceri00webmodeling,
author = {Stefano Ceri and Piero Fraternali and Aldo Bongio},
title = {Web Modeling Language (WebML): a modeling language for designing Web sites},
booktitle = {},
year = {2000},
pages = {137--157}
}
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Abstract
Designing and maintaining Web applications is one of the major challenges for the software industry of the year 2000. In this paper we present Web Modeling Language (WebML), a notation for specifying complex Web sites at the conceptual level. WebML enables the high-level description of a Web site under distinct orthogonal dimensions: its data content (structural model), the pages that compose it (composition model), the topology of links between pages (navigation model), the layout and graphic requirements for page rendering (presentation model), and the customization features for one-to-one content delivery (personalization model). All the concepts of WebML are associated with a graphic notation and a textual XML syntax. WebML specifications are independent of both the client-side language used for delivering the application to users, and of the server-side platform used to bind data to pages, but they can be effectively used to produce a site implementation in a specific technologica...
