Processing SGML Documents - Electronic Documents Lab 9

The purpose of this lab is to:

• give a (very) brief introduction to SGML
• give a clear picture of the parsing process and explain why it should be done
• work through an example of parsing an SGML document (the Lab 9 exercise)

SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language

• What is SGML?
• Why does is exist?
• How does one use it?

Parsing SGML

• What does it mean to parse an SGML document?
• Why should I parse my SGML documents?
• How can parse my SGML documents?
• Lab 9 Exercise

Related Web Resources

• SGML on the Web
• SGML newsgroup - comp.text.sgml
• ISO - Internation Organization for Standardization
• The SGML Open Consortium
• WebTechs HTML Validation Service - their form invokes sgmls.
• The SGML Web Page - very comprehensive but somewhat slow.
• SoftQuad, Inc. - commercial SGML tools.

References

• Bryan, Martin. SGML: An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1988.
• Electronic Documents' Structured Documents Module