SGML: Practical Guide to SGML Filters

Subject: Practical Guide to SGML Filters

Date: 16 Jan 1997 21:26:44 GMT

From: "Russell A. Stultz" <rstultz@wordware.com>

Newsgroup: comp.text.sgml


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The definitive SGML Filters book, "Practical Guide to SGML Filters" by
Norman Smith, introduction by Deborah A. LaPeyre, was recently published by
Wordware Publishing, Inc.  This book is perfect for programmers charged with
SGML implementation, Webmasters, or anyone writing text processing
applications. Complete with descripions, case studies, and detailed code
illustrations, the book guides users through manipulating SGML data and
creating SGML filters. This book compares five popular languages for SGML
manipulation: AWK, C, OmniMark, Perl, and the S-Engine. Three of these are
general programming tools and two are explicitly SGML-aware software. The
book contains background discussions about developing filters, both to and
from SGML, and a number of case studies to get your started. Author Norman
Smith uses these case studies to present a series of SGML translation
problems. and then solves each problem in two or three languages. Each case
study is first analyzed to show Smith's approach, independent of the code,
and then carefully explained code illustrations show how each problem was
worked out within a changing tool base. Two companion diskettes include
source code in addition to fully functional OmniMark Sampler, Rainbow
RTF-to-SGML converter, AWK, Perl, S-Engine, and SGMLS Parser.
ISBN 1-55622-511-3, U.S. $49.95
Order from your local bookstore; see http://www.wordware.com