Introduction

While most of the reference documents in the Cover Pages are topical treatments of specific markup languages and initiatives, some documents are dedicated to technical topics of a general nature. See the following [provisional] listings.

Technical Topics: General

• SGML/XML and Literate Programming
  • SGML and Literate Programming
  • XML and Literate Programming
  • DSSSL and Literate Programming
• XML/SGML Name Registration
• Resource Description and Classification
• XML and Compression
• Namespaces in XML
• SGML/XML and TeX
• Architectural Forms and SGML/XML Architectures
• Groves, Grove Plans, and Property Sets in SGML/XML/DSSSL/HyTime
• SGML/XML and Forest/Hedge Automata Theory
• MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) and SGML/XML
• Markup Languages for Names and Addresses
• XML and/versus SGML
• XML Media/MIME Types
• GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) XML Library
• XML and Perl
• XML and Python
• XML and CORBA
• XML in Mozilla
• XML in MS Internet Explorer
• SML-DEV's Minimal XML

Technical Topics: SGML/XML Grammar

• Grammar
• SGML Declaration
• Productions: the grammar productions from ISO 8879
• Definitions (from clause 4 of ISO 8879)
• Michael Sperberg-McQueen's Grammar Tools
• SGML/XML DTD/Grammar Transduction and Generation
• Content Model Simplification, Rewrite Rules, Reducing Grammars
• SGML/XML Notion of Ambiguity (non-deterministic content models)
• RS/RE Processing
• Use (and Non-use) of Exceptions in DTDs
• CDATA [and RCDATA] as Declared Content
• Elements versus attributes - How do I decide?
• Duplicate Tokens (forbidden) in an Attribute Definition List
• "Are entity references recognized and replaced in attribute values?"
• SGML and Context Free Grammars
• Markup Languages and (Non-) Hierarchies
• SGML SUBDOC Feature
• Other Grammar/Parsing Issues and SGML FEATURES
• ESIS - ISO 8879 Element Structure Information Set
• ISO 8879: Character Sets and Multilingual Text, including Extended Reference Concrete Syntaxes (ERCS)
• ISO 8879: Conformance
• ISO 8879: DTDS (Repositories of document type declarations/definitions conforming to ISO 8879)
• SGML/XML Entity Sets
• SGML Entity Types, and Entity Management
• Catalogs, Formal Public Identifiers, Formal System Identifiers
• ISO 8879: Revisions/Amendments
• Technical Resolutions and Proposals
• SGML (and HTML) Stylesheets
• SGML and HTML
• SGML/XML and Math