Cameron Laird's index to SGML resources
Table of contents:
Start with Lou Burnard's
Gentle
Introduction to SGML. Several of us, including
Claude
L. Bullard and
Chet
Ensign, have distributed one-lesson introductions to SGML.
Jeffrey McArthur occasionally works on a FAQ for comp.text.sgml,
but has to this point inspired the c.t.s community to more heat
than light. It will be a profound sign of health when we
collectively shift our energies from philosophy to engineering; the
objective correlative for that will be a FAQ that concerns itself
with availability of software, both freely distributable and
commercial, and other problems that admit solution, as opposed
to negotiation.
Joachim
Schrod, in email, detailed such examples as
- how do I set up my files so that the sgmls entity
manager will find them, or
- how do I handle the management of entity
catalogs in a large installation with lots of changing DTDs.
Robin Cover maintains a marvelous WWW
guide to SGML.
Practical SGML, by Eric van Herwijnen, from
Kluwer Academic Publishers, has lots of fans,
despite its $70 retail price. It's said to be well written.
I have reservations about it, which I might describe here at some
point.
Eliot Kimber calls James Clark's
SP a "really cool"
new SGML parser.
Martijn Koster has published a guide to setting up
sgmls
for HTML.
The
Whirlwind Guide to SGML Tools. There are a few
mirrors
for the Guide.
An
index
to SGML tools.
EBT has archived an
interesting collection of their customers' work.
Dan Connolly
keeps the
latest
version of his lexifier, destined for eventual integration
into the W3C library, available to the public.
What do I do with SGML? [Explain tools, standards, even performance.]
Why do SGMLians have a problem with WWWers? It largely aligns
with the
- Unix vs. Windows,
- the world vs. Microsoft,
- quality vs. the mass market,
and other
celebrated disputes. Erik Naggum
posts
often on the topic.
Len Bullard introduces
HyTime.
What do FOSI, LPD, and DSSSL have to do with SGML?
Bob
Agnew and
Erik
Naggum explain some of this in articles they
posted to comp.text.sgml.
SoftQuad
justifiably identifies itself as the leading SGML and HTML
consultancy.
SGMLOpen.
[Take time to explain my views: hot lead vs. propeller heads; standards;
platform independence, info management, and stylistic consistency;
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Cameron
Laird's index to SGML resources/claird@phaseit.net