Introduction to SGML

2-day course

• The philosophy of SGML, including:
  • Structured documents are natural and familiar
  • Generic markup enables reuse, interchange, and ease of editing
  • Advantages of separating structure and content
• SGML resources, including:
  • SGML conferences, publications, and organizations
  • SGML software
  • Related standards
• SGML syntax, including:
  • Document types and document instances
  • DTDs
  • Elements, attributes, tags, and entities
  • Markup minimization
  • Use of white space
  • Making SGML markup readable
  • Optional SGML features
  • The SGML declaration
• HTML as an application of SGML
• Relationship of SGML and XML