From: Jurgen Vinju
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:56:43 +0200
Subject: PEM | 28.06.01 | M.279

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   Dear colleagues,
   
   This weeks' PEM is on a hot topic: XML presentation. Martijn Schrage
   from Utrecht will present his work on Xprez. This is joint work with
   Johan Jeuring.
   
   This announcement can be found with links at
   <http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/jurgenv/pem/pem.cgi?993722400>
   
                   XPres: a presentation language for XML
                                      
   Date:    28.06.01
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   M.279
   Speaker: Martijn Schrage
   Title:   XPres: a presentation language for XML

   Existing presentation or style sheet languages like CSS-2 and XSL
   either lack expressive power, or are complex in use. Furthermore, none
   of them have good support for abstraction, which makes the style
   sheets hard to understand and unnecessary long.
   
   The Xprez language is a functional language with a set of primitive
   combinators for creating presentations. The resulting language is
   powerful enough to specify a range of document presentations, from
   mathematical formulas to graphical tree browsers, but simple
   presentations can still be specified with simple style sheets.
   
   The talk will consist of a short overview of existing presentation
   languages and an introduction to the Xprez language, together with a
   demonstration of its core features.
   
   Have a nice day.
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