The paper presents a new strategy for the authoring of hypermedia docu
ments; describes an HTML generator called HistMaker, and its applicati
on to the domain of Anatomic Pathology. A simple extension to HTML is
presented, whose aim is introducing a general-purpose grouping constru
ct to allow the semantic markup of hierarchically structured hypermedi
a documents. Such a structural information can be used for an effectiv
e authoring, browsing and searching of documents. The authoring tool H
istMaker is introduced on the basis of a model of a pathologic case; i
ts implementation and practical results are also discussed.