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Overview of SGML Resources

This is an overview of resources related to SGML and the Web, originally assembled for reviewers of the HTML 2.0 specification.

Learning and Using SGML

SGML, Standard Generalized Markup Language, is an enabling technology used in applications such as HTML. (see: Toward a Formalism for Communication on the Web).

The HTML specifications assume a working knowledge of SGML. The SGML standard itself is not available online, but there's plenty of code to read if you're a hacker, and a few introductory documents for everybody.

Gentle Introduction to SGML: from the TEI guidelines. A must-read for folks new to SGML
SGML Bibliography: Robin Cover's extensive (700 item) bibliography on SGML
SGML archive at the University of Oslo, Norway.: by Erik Naggum
update 1996-03-01: "The SGML Repository is no longer actively maintained, and will remain as is for the foreseeable future."

Specs, Drafts, and Reports

See also: abstracts of MIMESGML drafts

In reverse order, by publication/revision date:

A Lexical Analyzer for HTML and Basic SGML

W3C Tech Report on SGML low-level parsing details. Includes flex spec, test file, change log, and source distribution (which is missing filter.c):

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HTML 2.0 Specification Review Materials

Toward a Formalism for Communication on the Web)

unpublished draft by Dan Connolly

HTML to the Max

TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

Why Validate Your HTML

On validation and the ill-effects it helps to avoid.

SGML

ISO 8879. Information Processing -- Text and Office Systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), 1986.

SGML Syntax Summary Table of Contents

by Harvey Bingham

Groups and Discussion Forums

comp.text.sgml: USENET newsgroup for SGML
WG8: This is the working group for such ISO standards as SGML, HyTime, and DSSSL.
SGML Open: a consortium of SGML vendors convened to promote interoperability and market growth
IETF mimesgml wg: And abstracts of their drafts
TEI: Text Encoding and Interchange
DSSSL-Lite
Davenport Group

Dan Connolly, Editor of the HTML 2.0 specification
Created Nov 1995
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