The SGML FAQ Book: Understanding the Foundation of HTML and XML / Edition 1

by S.J. DeRose

Overview

Although not evident to all, many people have been waiting more than a decade for The SGML FAQ Book by Steve DeRose. It has been "brewing" for a long time, with many hours, months, years of research talking to people, gathering their ideas, listening to their frustrations, applauding their successes. Only Steve with his experience, credentials, wit, and enthusiasm for the subject could have written this book. But it is also a measure of the success and maturity of ISO 8879 and its amazing longevity that allows an "SGMLer" to write such a book. We can now laugh at ourselves, even disclose our mistakes without fear of the other guy. While most would not recognize it, the revolution known as the World Wide Web would not have happened without a non-proprietary, easy, and almost "portable way to create and distribute documents across a widely disparate set of computers, networks, even countries. HTML, an SGML application, enabled this and as a result the world and the SGML community will never be the same. For some the term SGML means order, management, standards, discipline; to others, the term brings images of pain, confusion, complexity, and pitfalls. To all who have engaged in it, the Standard means hard work, good friends, savings in terms of time, money, and effort, a sense of accomplishment and best of all - fun. This book adds immeasurably to all of these. Enjoy the quote from Through Looking by Lewis Carroll as much as we have.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792399438
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	07/31/1997
Series:	Electronic Publishing Series , #7
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

For Authors and Document Editors Using SGML Tools.- For Authors and Document Editors Who Commonly Deal With Raw SGML.- For Data Conversion Specialists.- For Authors And Editors Using External Data Or Modifying DTDs.- For Builders of SGML DTDs.- For Builders of SGML DTDs Who Must Constrain Data In Special Ways.- For Builders of SGML DTDs and SGML Declarations.- XML: A simple, Standard Subset.

Editorial Reviews

Addresses questions from people who already actually use SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (including HTML authors). Frequently advocating simplicity, the author covers some of the more obscure areas of SGML. Chapters are organized according to the various ways different people use SGML<-->beginning with questions for authors who create marked-up documents, followed by questions applicable to DTD designers, and finally a few for SGML system implementers. A brief introduction to SGML is included as appendix A. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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