Hypertext Maintenance: an Actual Issue of Hypertext Quality

Abstract

This paper presents the actual problems of the maintenance of the hypertext documents and tries to give some solutions for these problems. Just as.software has grown extremely complex and difficult to maintain, hypertext is now approaching similar complexity, with many documents based on large and intricate component graphs. Since software maintenance is a major problem and since hypertext documents share many of the characteristics of software-structure, development process, and economic value-maintaining hypertext documents is also likely to become a major problem requiring immediate action.