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- Lou Burnard asked me to pass this along:
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- From: Lou Burnard <lou@ws.oxford.ac.uk>
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- Someone on this list asked for suggestions for further reading on SGML.
- There follows a brief (100 lines) Reading List on SGML, in SGML.
- It is extracted from the recently published Guidelines for the
- Encoding and Interchange of Machine Readable Texts of the Text
- Encoding Initiative.
-
- <!DOCTYPE list.citn
- [
- <!-- DTD fragment for citations drafted: LB 26 May 90 -->
- <!element list.citn - - (citn|citn.struct)* >
- <!entity % citn.bits "(author|editor|title|title.piece
- |series|publisher|publ.city|publ.date
- |imprint|citn.detail|comment)" >
- <!element citn - o (#PCDATA | %citn.bits)* >
- <!element citn.struct - o (author?,editor?,title.piece*,title,
- series?,publisher?,publ.city?,publ.date?,
- imprint?,citn.detail*,comment?) >
- <!element %citn.bits - o (#PCDATA) >
- ]>
-
- <!-- This is the short SGML Reading list referred to in section 3.1 -->
-
- <LIST.CITN>
- <CITN.STRUCT>
- <AUTHOR>Barnard, David et al </author>
- <TITLE.piece>SGML Based Markup for literary texts </title.piece>
- <TITLE>Computers and the Humanities</title>
- <PUBL.DATE>1988</publ.date>
- <CITN.DETAIL>vol 22 pp 265-76</citn.detail>
- <COMMENT>Pioneering attempt to represent literary structures using SGML.</comment>
- </citn.struct>
- <CITN.STRUCT>
- <AUTHOR>Barron, David</author>
- <TITLE.piece> Why use SGML?
- <TITLE>Electronic Publishing
- <PUBL.DATE>April 1989
- <CITN.DETAIL> vol 2(1) pp 3-24
- <COMMENT>Well-written brief overview of SGML in context of
- other developments in electronic text handling
- <CITN.STRUCT>
- <AUTHOR>Bryan, Martin
- <TITLE>SGML: an author's guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language
- <PUBLISHER>Addison-Wesley
- <PUBL.DATE>1988
- <COMMENT>Detailed text book giving full treatment of the
- standard, but primarily from the publishing perspective.
- <CITN.STRUCT>
- <AUTHOR>Coombs, James H. et al
- <TITLE.piece>Markup systems and the future of scholarly text processing
- <TITLE> Communications of the ACM
- <PUBL.DATE>November 1987
- <CITN.DETAIL>Vol 30 no 11 ppp 933-47
- <COMMENT>Classic polemic in favour of descriptive over
- procedural markup presented from the scholarly perspective
- <citn.struct>
- <author><CITN.STRUCT>
- <AUTHOR>International Organisation for Standardisation
- <TITLE>ISO 8879: Information processing - Text and office
- systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
- <PUBL.DATE>1986
- <COMMENT>Annexes A and B to the Standard provide a formal
- but readable summary of its most important features.
- <CITN.STRUCT>
- <AUTHOR>International Organisation for Standardisation
- <TITLE>ISO/TR 9573: Information processing - SGML support
- facilities - Techniques for using SGML
- <PUBL.DATE>1988
- <COMMENT>Tutorial discussion of main features of the standard with some interesting examples
- <CITN.STRUCT>
- <EDITOR>McCarty, Willard
- <TITLE.piece>[Humanist's Markup Topic files] [computer files]
- <TITLE> Humanist Electronic Discussion Group
- <PUBL.DATE>March-May 1989
- <CITN.DETAIL>Files MARKUP TOPIC-1 to MARKUP TOPIC-6
- <COMMENT>Contain a wealth of informed and uninformed comment and speculation
- about markup in general and SGML in particular. Available from ListServ
- @ BROWNVM.EARN
- <CITN.STRUCT>
- <AUTHOR>van Herwijnen, Eric
- <TITLE>Practical SGML
- <PUBLISHER>Wolters Kluwer
- <PUBL.DATE>1990 (June)
- <COMMENT>General purpose introductory textbook
- <CITN.STRUCT>
- <AUTHOR>Warmer, J. and S. van Egmond
- <TITLE.piece>The implementation of the Amsterdam SGML parser
- <TITLE> Electronic Publishing
- <PUBL.DATE>July 1989
- <CITN.DETAIL> vol 2 (2), pp65-90
- COMMENT>Discusses some of technical problems in implementing an SGML compiler
- using standard LL(1) parser-generator techniques
- <CITN.STRUCT>
- <AUTHOR>Wu, Gilbert S.K.
- <TITLE>SGML theory and practice (British Library research paper 68)
- <PUBL.DATE>1989
- <COMMENT>Section 3 is a good 30 page summary of the most salient features
- of the standard
- </list.citn>
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- Lou Burnard
- Associate Editor, Text Encoding Initiative
- Oxford University Computing Service LOU@UK.AC.OX.VAX
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