"This book, covering the standards for document description and processing languages, developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), refers to all the latest standards and technical reports. It describes their inter-relationships, and develops the potential value of SGML. It will provide a standard work for corporate information bases and takes a new step in the move towards the 'paperless' office as well as document/information transfer in the world of open systems interconnection (OSI)." [Publisher's description]
Table of Contents Preface xi Acronyms and abbreviations xv 1. Introduction 1 2. The Standard Generalized Markup Language 12 3. An SGML document 24 4. Some application considerations 35 5. The integrated information base 45 6. Presenting SGML documents 55 7. SGML support facilities 66 8. Hypermedia and other new work 77 9. Some applications of SGML 89 10. A comparison of SGML and ODA 103 11. SGML product guidance 120 12. Further information 134 Appendix 1: A brief history of the development of SGML 143 Appendix 2: Glossary 146 Index 149