Review :34 Second Commentary on Practical SGML William Schick, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories PracticalSGML is a thorough and scholarly overview of SGML,the ISO standard, not SGML,the documentation problem solver. Eric van Herwijnen describes in admirable detail how a document type definition (DTD) and appropriately marked up input come together to produce well-formed information modules ready to be plugged into state-of-the-art browsers and multi-media products. As a reference source, Practical SGMLadequately provides most of the nuts and bolts information about SGMLthat system implementers will need. This is a remarkable achievement, given the book's modest size of 288 pages. Mr. van Herwijnen is kind to the novice; he begins with a brief but solid treatment of the history of SGML, explaining how it differs from proprietary, non.portable markup schemes. For this second edition he has added an all too brief chapter offering "Some advice on DTDs" (Chapter 14) and a summary of sources of further information. Both sections are of practical use to the novice, especially Chapter 6, "How to keep up to date with SGML," because it identifies some of the resources a reader would expect a book entitled Practical SGML to contain. The main problem I have with
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Second commentary on practical SGML
Schick, William
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 20 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – May 1, 1996
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