The SGML FAQ Book

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. For Authors and Document Editors Using SGML Tools

   Pages 1-29

3. For Authors and Document Editors Who Commonly Deal With Raw SGML

   Pages 31-59

4. For Data Conversion Specialists

   Pages 61-75

5. For Authors And Editors Using External Data Or Modifying DTDs

   Pages 77-95

6. For Builders of SGML DTDs

   Pages 97-137

7. For Builders of SGML DTDs Who Must Constrain Data In Special Ways

   Pages 139-161

8. For Builders of SGML DTDs and SGML Declarations

   Pages 163-180

9. XML: A simple, Standard Subset

   Pages 181-193

10. Back Matter

    Pages 195-250

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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.

• DTD
• Designer
• HTML
• SGML
• XML
• complexity
• management
• organization

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  Steven J. DeRose

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