Keep it simple - Interactive electronic applications with SGML		Table of contents		Indexes		Publishing to the Web is More than Converting Data into HTML

Matheson Ken

SGML and the On-line Legislature

Synopsis

The Alabama State Legislature has begun an extensive re-engineering effort to improve the process and technologies used to craft and enact legislation and to improve the means through which the public can be directly involved in the legislative process. When this project is completed, the State will have an information system that provides repository based authoring and publishing, client/server legislative operation systems with a "real-time" Internet interface. SGML is an important component of this complex application.

In this session we will present an overview of the application and we will discuss in more detail how we used object oriented information engineering analysis and document analysis to develop a robust information model. We will discuss the design challenges we faced integrating SGML with traditional database technologies, mult-tiered client server technologies and the Internet. Most important, we will share valuable lessons learned about designing and building repository based SGML systems.


Keep it simple - Interactive electronic applications with SGML		Table of contents		Indexes		Publishing to the Web is More than Converting Data into HTML