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Web Queries with Style: Rendering Xcerpt Programs with CSS NG Fran¸ cois Bry and Christoph Wieser Presentation: Christoph Wieser University of Munich http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de 11th June 2006 PPSWR 2006 Web Queries with Style: Rendering Xcerpt Programs with CSS NG Fran¸ cois Bry and Christoph Wieser

Querying using Xcerpt Querying for Geeks Querying with Style CONSTRUCT results [ all result [ var Author, all var Title ] ] FROM in { resource { "http://localhost/bib.xml" }, bib [[ book [[ var Title -> title {{ }}, var Author -> author {{ }} ]] ]] } END Web Queries with Style: Rendering Xcerpt Programs with CSS NG Fran¸ cois Bry and Christoph Wieser

Xcerpt-Programs with Style Unfolded title element: Folded title element: Highlighted Xcerpt variable: Superimposed menu: Web Queries with Style: Rendering Xcerpt Programs with CSS NG Fran¸ cois Bry and Christoph Wieser

How CSS NG extends CSS 3 CSS NG extends CSS 3 towards Markup Insertion Markup Querying Depth-dependent Styling Dynamic Styling Structure-independent Selection Web Queries with Style: Rendering Xcerpt Programs with CSS NG Fran¸ cois Bry and Christoph Wieser

Advantages of CSS NG CSS NG style sheets make scripting unnecessary for many applications, provide declarative rules for dynamic styling, allow generic markup visualization, cause no schema changes of the document to be styled, Web Queries with Style: Rendering Xcerpt Programs with CSS NG Fran¸ cois Bry and Christoph Wieser