Simple Report Format (SRF) - HOME

SRF is an XML application that was developed and used to format Tracking the Navigation Behavior of Web Communities and Toward an Integrated Approach to Collaborative Web Usage. It consists of a DTD which is based on XHTML but adds many tags that were missing in XHTML. In particular, tags for a structure of the document are added. Furthermore, an XSL stylesheet has been developed which is used to convert a document formatted with SRF to XHTML that can be displayed in any common Web browser.

The XSL stylesheet implements the following features:

Modelling the structure of the document with chapter, section and subsection, as well as appendix, appsection and appsubsection. These are automatically enumerated.
Automatically building a table of contents with hyperlinks to the sections. Furthermore, a brief table of contents can be generated that only contains chapters and appendices.
Acronyms and abbreviations that are automatically expanded for printing, while being displayed as a popup on screen. Acronyms and abbreviations can be included in an index.
Definitions are also included in an index. That way, an index of keywords can easily be built. For each definition, the section in which it was defined is shown in the index and a hyperlink to the definition is automatically generated.
(HTML-)Tables and figures with captions and summaries, that are automatically enumerated with the section they are used in. Tables and figures are also included in an index. Figures can be scaled conveniently to fit on screen or paper.
References and citations that automatically link to the bibliography.
Footnotes that can be placed anywhere in the document and that link back and forth: if the user clicks on the number of the expanded footnote, the place where the footnote was used is shown.

The DTD and XSL stylesheet are still somewhat experimental and tailored to the diploma thesis they have last been used for. However, you are free to use and optimized them for your own needs. Probably, I'll release this stuff under GPL and put it as a project to sourceforge some day soon. Until that day: