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SGML Application Development: Tradeoffs and Choices

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Author(s)

Joshua Lubell, Lisa Phillips

Abstract

Developing SGML applications involves making choices driven by end user requirements and by the availability and functionality of third party SGML parsers, authoring tools, search engines, browsers, and data converters. Capabilities of HTML and the World Wide Web should factor into these decisions as well if users are geographically dispersed or have diverse computing platforms. SGML application developers typically build some or all of the following components: a DTD; legacy data conversion tools; a DTD-tailored authoring environment; a document repository; browsing and searching interfaces; and tools for producing formatted output. For each component, we discuss design and implementation alternatives, the approach we decided to use in building our SGML environment for authoring and accessing STEP product data exchange standards, and our rationale for choosing that approach.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the SGML'96 Conference
Conference Dates
November 18-21, 1996
Conference Location
Boston, MA, USA

Keywords

authoring, data conversion, DTD, formatting, HTML, search engine, SGML, STEP, Tcl

Citation

Lubell, J. and Phillips, L. (1996), SGML Application Development: Tradeoffs and Choices, Proceedings of the SGML'96 Conference, Boston, MA, USA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821330 (Accessed November 12, 2024)

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Created October 31, 1996, Updated October 12, 2021