Notes on SGML and HTML

SGML Notes

... scrutinizing the inscrutable ISO 8879.

5 Apr 2002. A plea for Sanity in XML namespaces.
28 Nov 2000. Unflattening XHTML; Usenet posting describing a transformation technique for adding hierarchical structure to flat documents.
25 Jun 1999. How to validate XML. A brief note describing a regular-expression matching algorithm which deserves to be more widely know.
1 April 1997. NOT the comp.text.sgml Frequently Asked Questions List.
24 Oct 1995. Stupid PATHLOC Tricks (PostScript, 14 pp). An exploration of a useful but somewhat obscure HyTime concept. Also: HTML and plain text versions.
6 Oct 1995. The CDATA keyword, and why it's so confusing.
8 Oct 1995. SGML Documents: different views. Several answers to the question ``what is an SGML document?''
15 Sep 1995. Cost, an SGML processing tool.
Some very limited information about DSSSL.

... partially complete fragments.

2 Nov 1995. Comment Syntax in SGML and HTML. How to put comments in an HTML or SGML document, and why the definition looks so !%@#$ weird (an HTML FAQ).
4 Oct 1995, under construction. A Taxonomy of SGML Entities. An attempt to sort out parameter, general, internal, external, text, data, and subdocument entities and how they all fit together. Warning: This document contains errors. Don't trust it.

... links to other SGML-related Web sites.

Robin Cover's SGML Web Page and Bibliography. An excellent source of SGML information: comprehensive, well organized, and well maintained.

OK, so that's just one link, but it's the only one you'll need.