A Conceptual Model and Rule-Based Query Language for HTML

World Wide Web

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 49-77

  Liu, Mengchi ^a   Ling, Tok Wang ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

conceptual modeling; data model for HTML; fixpoint logical semantics; HTML query language; rule based query language

Indexed keywords

HTML; MODELING LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DATA MODEL FOR HTML; FIXPOINT LOGICAL SEMANTIC; FIXPOINTS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HTML DOCUMENTS; HTML QUERY LANGUAGE; LOGICAL SEMANTICS; RULE BASED; RULE-BASED QUERY LANGUAGE;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 85135065042     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: 15731413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012408428703     Document Type: Article

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