SGML: Practical Guide to SGML Filters

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
------------------------------------------------- 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