DDEP: Links and Structure -- A Link-Oriented Comparison of Hyperdocuments and Programs -- Context-Aware Digital Documents Described In a High-Level Petri Net-Based Hypermedia System -- Robust Hyperlinks: Cheap, Everywhere, Now -- DDEP: Typrography and Authoring -- Inferring Structure Information from Typography -- Multimedia Authoring with MAVA -- Perceptually-Tuned Grayscale Characters Based on Parametrisable Component Fonts -- DDEP: Management and Adaption -- A Simple Management Tool for Medium-Sized Web Sites -- Structuring Access to a Dynamic Collection of Digital Documents: The Walden’s Paths Virtual Directories -- An XML-Based Multimedia Document Processing Model for Content Adaptation -- PODDP -- Abstraction Levels in Web Document Formats -- Automatic Geographical Hypertext “Multi-scaled Links” Generation -- GODDAG: A Data Structure for Overlapping Hierarchies -- A Correspondence between UML Diagrams and SGML/XML DTDs -- A Conceptual Model for XML -- Overview of Tree Transducer Based Document Transformation System -- Electronic Publishing: Improving Distributed Information Systems -- Browsing Agents: Automated Browsing of Distributed Information -- An Evaluation of Two Metaphors for Electronic News Presentation.

This volume contains the proceedings of two recent conferences in the ?eld of electronic publishing and digital documents: – DDEP 2000, the 8th International Conference on Digital Documents and Electronic Publishing, the successor conference to the EP conference series; and – PODDP 2000, the 5th International Workshop on the Principles of Digital Document Processing. Both conferences were held at the Technische Universit¨ at Munc ¨ hen, Munich, Germany in September 2000. DDEP 2000 was the eighth in a biennial series of international conferences organized to promote the exchange of novel ideas concerning the computer p- duction, manipulation and dissemination of documents. This conference series has attempted to re?ect the evolving nature and usage of documents by treating digital documents and electronic publishing as a broad topic covering many - pects. These aspects have included document models, document representation and document dissemination, dynamic and hyper-documents, document ana- sis and management, and wide-ranging applications. The papers presented at DDEP 2000 and in this volume re?ect this broad view, and cover such diverse topicsashypermediastructureanddesign,multimediaauthoringtechniquesand systems, document structure inference, typography, document management and adaptation, document collections and Petri nets. All papers were refereed by an international program committee.