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Problem Description Language (Research Group)

The conceptual model which we use at time of writing is constructed using fifteen types of assertion. We describe a representative sample of five of these below:

To use these to generate our WWW site we have defined a collection of expressions relating the expressions in our conceptual model to the structure of our WWW site. Satisfying these expressions generates an instance of our WWW site. Although the structure of the site itself consists of a collection of pages written in the HTML language, we use the translators provided by the Pillow systemgif to permit us a higher level vocabulary, using structured terms, which the Pillow translators automatically convert to HTML. A sample of the structured terms used to represent the form of WWW pages is given below:



Dave Stuart Robertson
Tue Jul 7 10:32:11 BST 1998