Copyright (c) Robin Cover 1994-97. Database last modified June 30, 1997. The SGML Web Page lives at http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html, and plans are being made for it to be mirrored by SoftQuad's WWW server.
Support for the development and maintenance of this SGML Web Page is provided in part by SoftQuad, Inc. and by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, to whom gratitude is acknowledged.
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is an ISO standard (ISO 8879:1986) which supplies a formal notation for the definition of generalized markup languages. This SGML Web Page is an online database of SGML information and software, designed to make information about SGML resources freely accessible by means of a Web browser.
The reference collection currently has some 1900 documents. Other Internet FTP sites supporting SGML provide a wealth of valuable information in disk files, but access to that information via the filesystems is sometimes not optimal for the beginner. This WWW document collection attempts to embed links to the SGML archives within descriptive prose, and within a subject-oriented document hierarchy. Introductions to SGML are provided for beginners; technical and reference materials are made available for researchers and implementors. The SGML Web Page includes a comprehensive annotated and linked bibliography for SGML, with over 1500 bibliographic entries. The entire database is indexed for keyword search and retrieval.
Documents in the database are maintained by hand, so the liabilities are legion. Users are urged to take cognizance of the disclaimers and caveats.
This page is maintained by Robin Cover. Send comments to robin@acadcomp.sil.org.
Users not having direct Internet access (e.g., perhaps in developing countries) can obtain some of the information from the SGML Web Page via a mail-based WebMail server at University College, Cork. Restrictions currently require that these be the smaller documents (less than 128K) in 7-bit "text" format: xxx.txt, xxx.html, xxx.htm. Send the message "get [URL]" with no quotes via email to webmail@www.ucc.ie. The command 'get' returns the HTML document, while 'send' returns a plain text version without markup; 'help' returns a help file. See the WebMail information page at "http://www.ucc.ie/webmail/" for current information.
The author solicits additions, corrections, and comments related to the SGML Web Page. This invitation extends particularly to researchers who have "work in progress." Research of this nature is of vital interest to the SGML community because it is current: technical reports, RFCs, research memoranda, draft working papers, documents submitted for publication or in press, white papers, technical resolutions, etc. Many of these works are inadequately indexed as paper documents within work-flow information channels used by the library science community, or are only belatedly indexed. Your research deserves to be publicized early -- while it is most relevant as a catalyst for other good ideas. Please send communiques with full bibliographic information (URLs if possible) by electronic or postal mail:
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