Uniform hypertext presentations on the World Wide Web

Abstract

Users of the World Wide Web frequently have to access particular documents, for example via FTP or via Wais, that are not ready for managing by http clients using HTML. Such documents not only look poor, but moreover, they don't allow navigation to other sites containing related objects, unless a new request is made. The aim of the paper is to provide a hypertext presentation for those documents that have not been generated with such characteristics. The system we propose, Hypertext Presentation System (HPS), can generate HTML documents on the basis of documents in ASCII format. Its main aim is to provide uniform presentation modalities for semantically similar documents, even if these come from different sources.