SGML on the Web: Small Steps Beyond HTML
By Rubinsky and Maloney

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Rubinsky, Yuri; Maloney, Murray. SGML on the Web: Small Steps Beyond HTML. Charles F. Goldfarb Series On Open Information Management. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR [Professional Technical Reference], 1997. Extent: 528 pages, CDROM with Panorama Pro 2.0 and other software. ISBN: Paper (0-13-519984-0). Authors' affiliation: SoftQuad, Inc. See the bibliographic entry for other descriptions.

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Volume Table of Contents

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Foreword

Preface-Firmness, Commodity and Delight

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Part I-Talking the Talk

Chapter 1-Why Go Beyond HTML?

• The Bottom Line Is Your Set of Requirements
• The Four Fundamentals
• The Facts About SGML
• A Good Time to be Using Full SGML
• When HTML is Not Enough
• Read On

Chapter 2-How to Use This Book

• Getting a Quick Start
• Organization of Parts and Chapters
• Organization of Examples .
• Typing the Examples
• Instant Startup Using the Accompanying Disk
• Typographic and Markup Conventions

Chapter 3-Starting Simple

• When HTML Is Too Much
• Adding markup = Adding value
• Example 1-Plain Text in SGML
• Example 2-Adding Simple Anchors and Links to Plain Text
• Example 3-A Little Bit of Structure in Our Plain Lives . . .
• Example 4-You Can Empower Anything You Can Identify
• Example 5-The Names Can Be Changed to Protect the Innocent
• Example 6-Trcks a' Shrthnd
• Example 7-A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet
• Example 8-As the Ancient Philosophers Say: Semantics Happen
• Example 9-Final Small Steps on the Road to a Useful Mini-Version of HTML
• How Far We've Come in this Chapter

Part II-Walking the Walk

Chapter 4-Exploring HTML with a Flashlight

• When HTML Is Just Right
• Example 10-Nice Body. Nice Head.
• Example 11-This Element is Half Full
• Example 12-Let's Emphasize Text, He Said Boldly
• Example 13-What Was That Link I Saw You With?
• Example 14-On Being Specific
• Example 15-No Anchor is an Island
• How Far We've Come in This Chapter

Chapter 5-We'll Take the High Road

• Extending HTML, Even If You're Not Netscape, Microsoft or the World Wide Web Consortium
• Stop! You're Both Right. So How Do We Make HTML Extensible? . . .
• The Formalities. I Do Declare!
• Example 16-Striding off into the Subset .
• Example 17-Going through Another Pretty Phrase
• Example 18-Put a Little Hierarchy into Your Life

Chapter 6-Leaving a Trail of Breadcrumbs

• Example 19-Distinguishing Characteristics and Naming Names
• Example 20-Diving into the Subject
• Example 21-What You See is the Tip of the Information Iceberg
• Example 22-The Combined Joys of Electronic Review and Machine Processing
• Example 23-While I Wasn't Watching, What Changed?
• Example 24-Have We Outgrown Looseleaf Binders Yet?

Part III-Stepping Beyond

Chapter 7-Fresh DTDs

• Example 25-Stop the Presses!
• Example 26-What's Content? What Appears Magically?
• Example 27-Turn off the Lights!

Chapter 8-You Can Get There From Here

• Example 28-Anchors, Links, Targets, Buttons, Icons, We Got It All
• Example 29-Jumping from Slide to Slide
• Example 30-The Low Low End of Computer-based Training
• Example 31-Cranking up the Power
• Example 32-HyTime Tree Location Addressing
• Example 33-HyTimeData Location Addressing

Chapter 9-The Tiny Table Two-Step

• The 10-Minute Executive Guide to Some of the Table Issues
• Example 34-A Simple Kitchen Table
• Example 35-Throw a Little Span in the Works
• Example 36-Seeing the World through Rose-colored Glasses
• Example 37-The Powers of Axis/Axes .

Part IV-Struttin' Your Stuff

Chapter 10-Running on Entities

• Example 38-Multiple Sources for One On-the-fly Document
• Example 39-Automatic Text Generation for Automotive Manuals
• Example 40-Make Your Own Nest and Lie in It
• Chapter 11-The Absolutely Critical Next Step
• Document Type (DOCTYPE ) Declarations
• Public Identifiers
• Finding DTDS in Daily Life
• The SGML Open Entity Catalog

Appendixes

Appendix A-The SGML Primer

• Jumping In
• SGML: The End-User's Eye View
• How Declarations Work
• The DTD for a Primer Booklet
• The Document Instance
• Element Type Declarations
• The Flood DTDs: Before and After
• Comments
• Attribute Definition List Declarations
• Attribute Definition List Declarations: The Parts
• General Entities
• Parameter Entities .
• Notation Declarations
• Marked Sections

Appendix B-SGML Users, Start Here

• The Overlap between Art and Science: HTML Implementations Aren't At All
• Like SGML Implementations-Yet!
• HTML Shows Us There's a Trade-off between Payoff and Work
• If You're Part of the SGML Literati, How Best to Use This Book?
• How Do We Put SGML on the Web?

Appendix C-A Good Time to be Using SGML

1. New Products
2. Spread of SGML to New Industries
3. The World's Largest SGML Application
4. Appearance of SGML in Mainstream Magazines and on Bookstore Shelves
5. Attendance at SGML conferences is Nearly Doubling Each Year

Appendix D-Just Enough History

• In a Hallway in CERN
• The Roots of the World Wide Web
• Generalized Markup, SGML, and HyTime
• ASCII and Angle Brackets: What the Web Got from SGML
• Mosaic Makes the Web Explode (1993)
• The Web Today
• What Makes the Web Important?

Appendix E-License Agreement and Limited Warranty

• Acknowledgement

Bibliography

• Other Books About SGML
• Other Published SGML Works by Yuri Rubinsky

Glossary

Index

Colophon

Afterwords

• It's Over... But It Goes On
• Afterwards

About the Authors

• Yuri Rubinsky
• Murray Maloney