INTERACTIVELY RESTRUCTURING HTML DOCUMENTS

When editing Web pages, a user may desire to transform the documents a s freely as with a word processor. But because Web documents must conf orm to a rigorous structure (defined by the HTML DTD), every transform ation is not allowed and the editing system must perform some work to obtain valid HTML documents. This paper presents a solution to the pro blem of transforming the document structure in a HTML editor. A tool b ased on a transformation language is described. Techniques that have b een designed for general structured documents have been adapted to tak e into account the specific structure of the HTML DTD.