The XML and SGML Cookbook: Recipes for Structured Information

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61422-2 Every month, the demand for SGML expertise grows-yet few people have mastered this breakthrough technology for managing information. With The XML & SGML Cookbook, you can move from SGML novice to expert faster than ever before. Based on a successful training course, this book provides dozens of instantly-usable Document Type Definition (DTD) "recipes" for virtually every type of document - and it delivers a practical understanding of document structure, patterns and form, so you can go "beyond the cookbook." *Proven recipes for all the most common editorial structures. *Databases, tables, forms, lists, and multiple-version documents. *Frontmatter, metadata, formatting, and backmatter. *Practical tips and warnings for SGML, XML, HTML, TEI, and CALS publishing. *Detailed coverage of building documents for international use. *All DTDs on CD-ROM - plus extensive state-of-the-art SGML tools! Quickly learn the skills and sensitivities it's taken SGML experts years to develop. Discover how to manage critical tradeoffs between simplicity and richness, and between immediate and future applications.Learn to build DTDs that serve the needs of different users and different media-using techniques that are equally applicable in both SGML and XML environments. The CD-ROM contains all the book's DTDs, plus an extensive library of great SGML tools, including EditTime SGML Editor sampler and OmniMark Light sampler. Whether you're a publishing manager, information professional, system integrator or anyone else who needs stronger SGML expertise fast, there's no better solution than The XML & SGML Cookbook.

Table of Contents:
I. SYSTEMS OF DOCUMENTS. 1. Documents & Publications Explicit and Implicit Document Type. Love, Bloat and Prudence. A Six-View Model of Publications. Viewing Page Layout. Viewing Page Objects. Viewing Glyphs. Viewing Characters. Viewing Editorial Structure. Viewing Topic Structure. The Flow of Dependence. Fads, Trends, Polemics. Conflicts of Interest: HTML and SMDL. What about Non-Text? Documents versus APIs. 2. The Nature of Markup. What is Good Markup? Generic and Specific Tagging. Which is Better: Generic Markup or Specific Markup? Underlying Forms. Embedding Other Kinds of Data. The Worst DTD in the World? 3. Software Engineering. DTDs and Patterns. Reusable Components. Architectures. Information Units. Cohesion and Coupling. Waterfalls and Spirals. Diagrams. Maler and el Andoloussi's Methodology. Exploration and Prototypes. Prototyping. Exploratory DTD Design. The Human Side. Viewpoint Analysis. Scenario Analysis. User Interfaces are Documents. Involvement. Useful Skills. 4. Implementation Choices. DTD Style Checklist. Do You Need Full SGML? Almost SGML. Non-Standard Generalized Markup. HTML. XML. Your Own Simplified SGML. SGML with User Extensions. Thumbs Rule, OK! Language Analogy. Object Relationships. Occurrence. Sequence. 5. The Document in Use. Declarations are Not Enough! Processing SGML. SGML Tools. Text Tools. Storage Management Tools. Hybrid Tools. Groovy Steps with SGML. The Scrub. The Massage. The Tweak. Growth of DTDs. Top 10 Reasons Why DTDs Fail. Design Principles. II. DOCUMENT PATTERNS. 6. Common Attributes. SGML. HTML & XML. XLL. TEI. SGML Extended Facilities. Default Value Lists. Data Attributes for Elements. Limiting the Target Element Types of IDREFs. Common Data Attributes. The Unspecified Attribute. Paragraphs. Architectural Forms. 7. The Document Shell. HTML. Information Units. The Advantages of a Simple Head. 8. Paragraphs. Paragraphs versus Text Blocks. Paragraphs versus Paragraph Groups. Paragraph Contents. Paragraphs Nested Inside Paragraphs. Subparagraphs. ID Attributes. Development of the Paragraph. Paragraph Breaks. Paragraph Groups Revisited. 9. Sequences. Examples of Sequences. Bad Mixed Content. Simplifying the Linear Form. 10. Named Data. Fielded Text. Sequences of Fielded Text. Element References. Description Tables. Importing ASCII Dumps. Schema and Type Extension using Parameter Entities. 11. Tables. Direct Markup versus Element Reference. Simple HTML-Style Tables. ICADD Tables. CALS Tables. HTML 4 Tables. 12. Interactive Systems. Entity. Element. Processing Instruction. 13. Formal Public Identifiers. OASIS (SGML Open) Entity Catalogs. SGML and MIME. 14. Data Content Notations. Some FPIs for Notations. ISO Standard. Time and Space. Non-Standard. 15. Formal System Identifiers. Formal System Identifiers. Becoming an FSI User. 16. Embedded Notations. Naming. Stylesheets and Scripts. Defining Data Types. Lexical Typing using Standard Notation Names. Lexical Typing using Lexical Models. HyLex and POSIX Regular Expression Delimiters. An Attribute for Dates using HyLex. Date using POSIX Regular Expressions. Embedding Other Notations. Fragment Interchange. 17. Organizing & Documenting DTDs. Core Element Type Sets. Base and Derived DTDs. Architectural Forms. DTD Versions. Multiple Pass DTDs. Unaccounted-for Elements. Simple. Richer. Documenting Your DTD. External Documents. Comments. Additional Requirements. Descriptions in the Document Instance. III. CHARACTERS AND GLYPHS. 18. About Characters and Glyphs. The ISO Character/Glyph Model. Millefiori: 1000 Flowers. Modern Printed Scripts. Character Repertoire. Using Entities. Using Elements. Characters. Collation. Simple Collation for English. Collation for Western European Languages. Fuzzy Transforms. Explicit Markup. 19. Typeface, Script, & Language. Typeface. Western. Eastern. Specifying Exact Font. Design Group. Script Codes. Language Codes. Country Codes. Multilingual Documents. Inline Localizable. Interlaced Multilingual. Multilingual Hyperdocument. Multilingual World Wide Web. TEI Writing System Declaration. 20. The Flowering of Coded Character Sets. The Joy of Sets. Telegraph Codes: Five-Bit Sets. ASCII, EBCDIC, and ISO 646: Seven-Bit Sets. ISO 8859, ISCII, JIS X 201: Eight-Bit Sets. Extended Eight-Bit Sets. Sixteen-Bit Sets. Extended Sixteen-Bit Sets. Universal Sets. Literals. Character Set and Encodings. WG4 Character Encoding Model. How To Specify Character Encoding. 21. Them's the Breaks. Spaces, Words, Hyphens and Lines. Word Segmentation. Joining. Splitting Words and Hyphenation. Finding. White-space. Word Segmentation in Chinese. 22. Special Characters & SDATA. Using SDATA Entities. SDATA Entity Text. Quality Assurance on Characters. Accents. HTML Entities. Mathematical Scripts and Symbols. XML. 23. From Characters To Glyphs. Glyph Mapping. Glyph Selection. Glyph Selection with Entities. Size. Superscripts and Subscripts. Color Codes. Black, Grays and White. Colors. Typographical Embellishments. 24. East Asian Issues. Custom Symbols. Extra Characters. Gaiji & User-Defined Characters. Custom Fonts. Marking Up Handwritten Text. Ruby Annotations. Native-Language Markup. Appendixes. Appendix A: ISO Special Characters. Languages Added Latin 1. Added Latin 2. Greek Letters. Monotoniko Greek. Russian Cyrillic Characters. Non-Russian Cyrillic Characters. Symbols. Numeric and Special Graphic. Publishing. Diacritical Marks. General Technical. Chemistry. Added Math Symbols: Arrow Relations. Added Math Symbols: Binary Operators. Added Math Symbols: Opening and Closing. Delimiters. Added Math Symbols: Negated Relations. Added Math Symbols: Ordinary. Added Math Symbols: Relations. Greek Symbols. Alternative Greek Symbols. Appendix B: HTML Special Characters. HTMLspecial. HTMLlat1. HTMLsym. HTMLicon. Appendix C: TEI Special Characters. Basic Arabic Letters. Coptic Letters. Extra Classical Greek Letters. International Phonetics Alphabet. Appendix D: Index of XML Special Characters. Copyright (C) 1998 Rick Jelliffe


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780136142232
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Prentice Hall
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 656
  • Sub Title: Recipes for Structured Information
  • Width: 180 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0136142230
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jun 1998
  • Binding: SA
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 45 mm
  • Weight: 1291 gr


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