This paper presents an architectural implementation for Web-based, act
ive documents. Although several approaches for distributed, active doc
uments exist already, we decided to establish a new model which provid
es more flexibility and interoperability without giving up formality.
The model is based mainly on the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and
makes use of the Document Object Model, Cascading Style Sheets and the
Intrinsic Event Model, which are all open standards defined by the W3
Consortium. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights re
served.