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The DSSSL Book

An XML/SGML Programming Language

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Javier Farreres

    1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • Javier Farreres
    Pages 1-3

  3. The DSSSL Specification

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    Pages 5-12

  4. The Programming Language

    • Javier Farreres
    Pages 13-54

  5. The Process of Grove Construction

    • Javier Farreres
    Pages 55-98

  6. The Standard Document Query Language (SDQL)

    • Javier Farreres
    Pages 99-140

  7. The Transformation Process

    • Javier Farreres
    Pages 141-171

  8. The Style Process

    • Javier Farreres
    Pages 173-304

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 305-326
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DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language) is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 10179: 1996) published in the year 1996. DSSSL is a standard of the SGML family (Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879:1986), whose aim is to establish a processing model for SGML documents. For a good understanding of the SGML standard, many books exist including Author's guide[BryanI988] and The SGML handbook[GoldfarbI990]. A DSSSL document is an SGML document, written with the same rules that guide any SGML document. The structure of a DSSSL document is explained in Chapter 2. DSSSL is based, in part, on scheme, a standard functional programming language. The DSSSL subset of scheme along with the procedures supported by DSSSL are explained in Chapter 3. The DSSSL standard starts with the supposition of a pre-existing SGML document, and offers a series of processes that can be performed on it: • Groves The first process that is performed on an SGML document in DSSSL is always the analysis of the document and the creation of a grove. The DSSSL standard shares many common characteristics with another standard of the SGML family, HyTime (ISO/IEC 10744). These standards were developed in parallel, and their developers designed a common data model, the grove, that would support the processing needs of each standard.

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  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain

    Javier Farreres

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