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In many existing hypertext systems, a navigation mechanism is provided as the main facility so that readers can search the contents. In order to expand the ability of searching, in this paper we propose a query mechanism to be used in addition to the ordinary navigation mechanism. We can express the advanced abilities of searching by combining the query mechanism with the navigation mechanism. These query expressions can be used to provide the user's point of view besides the designer's point of view, which was previously defined by the links among nodes. Especially, an environment that changes dynamically in correspondence with the user's navigation can be described when one uses our query mechanism. Since the mechanisms proposed in this paper are defined in a formal way, they can be applied to various practical hypertext systems.
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Minohara, T., Watanabe, R., Tokoro, M. (1993). Queries on structures in hypertext. In: Lomet, D.B. (eds) Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms. FODO 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 730. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57301-1_27
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