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1. Writing With Standards: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Why Are Standards Necessary? Brief History and Survey of Standards. Objects of Standards. Impetus for an Electronic Standard: Automation. The Text Processing Application. Smart Document Architecture. 2. SGML as a New Paradigm: Structure before Style. Paradigms and Paradigm Shift. The Document: Printed Page versus Information to Be Processed. Writers and Editors: Makers of Pages or Describers of Structures. Traditional Markup versus SGML Markup. The Format of the SGML Document: Plain Unformatted Text. Example of SGML Markup: List and List Items. 3. Features and Benefits of SGML. Standards: Nice-to-Have versus Need-to-Have. Features and Benefits of the Lively Document. Portability. In-House Typesetting. Word Processing. System platforms. Device Types. Precision of the Specification. A Wider Community. Familiar architectures. Open-Ended Document Processing. Flexibility of Markup. Standard Notation for Defining Document Types. Markup for Structure Only. 4. Document Analysis: Recognizing a Document's Structure. What Is Document Structure? The Purpose of Structure. Indicating Structure Visually. Using SGML to Indicate Structure. Document Structure: A Discussion. Docment Structure: Summary by Table. 5. Document Type Definition: Writing for Structure. Traditional Writing Manuals. Abstract of ANSI Z39.18-1987. ANSI Z39.18-1987 and Document Organization. The Deliverable in Electronic Authoring. Mechanics of Markup. SGML Syntax for Tags. Tags Enclose an Element. Elements Can Be Nested. Easing the Writer's Task: Markup Minimization. Further Help: Validating SGML Parsers. The Ever-Present DTD. Document Type Definition: Basics. Document Type Definition: Working Discussion. Allowable Element Types: Their Names and Their Meaning. Tagging Communicates Structure. Additional Properties of Element Types. Creating a Structured Document: A Case Study. Description of the Document. Structure of the Document. Marked- Up Document. Document as Printed. 6. Element Type Declaration: Building the Markup Vocabulary. Weaknesses of an Intuitive Tagging Scheme. Formal Tagging. Convention for WAE. Formal Description of the Element Type's Usage. Occurrence of an Element. Contents of an Element. Formal Description of Order of Appearance. Recasting WAE as a Formal DTD. Opening Delimiter to Name Parameter. Omitted Tag Minimization Parameter. Content Model Parameter: Sequence. Content Model Parameter: Occurrence. Comments in the DTD. Document Type Declaration. Structure Definition. 7. Entities: Making Text Reusable. Parameter Entities and General Entities. The Need for Parameter Entities. Defining and Using Parameter Entities. The Need for Character Entities. Declaring and Using Character Entities. Summary of DTD Symbols. Modified WAE DTD. 8. Attributes: Enhancing the Power of Markup. Declaring and Using Markup. How Attributes "Fit" with Elements. How Attributes Are Used. Figure or Table Identifications and References. Indexable Terms. Type of Signature Authority. Security. References to External Identification Schemes. Enhancing the WAE DTD with an Attribute. Markup for Attributes in a Workplace Document. 9. Hypertext Editing for Interactive Navigation. Linear versus Non-linear Text. Anticipating Non-Linear Navigation. Some Essential Terminology. Designing for Hypertext. Explicit Links. Implied Links. "Value-Added" Links. Basic SGML Hypertext Linking Apparatus. Enhancing WAE for Hypertext Markup. What Is Needed for a Hypertext Link. An Element Type for Doing Link-To. What That Element Type Accomplishes. How We Mark the Anchor Element. Modifying WAE for Hypertext Linking. Implementation Issues. 10. Entity Management: Managing Reusable Text. Entities. Formal Definition. Parameter Entities. General Entities. Benefits. Entities in Pre-Electronic Writing and in SGML. Layered Activity. Markup Representation. Perceivable Representation. Storage Representation. Lessons from Software Engineering. Examples. A Document Type Definition in a Separate Entity. One Logical Document With Several Physical Entities. Details Isolated from the Body of the Text. 11. Marked Sections: Labeling for Special Purposes. Extending the Notions of Portability and Reusability. Declaring an SGML Marked Section. Syntax of Marked Sections. Using Entities with Marked Sections. 12. Reading A DTD: A Brief Walkthrough. DTD Fluency: Nice-to-Know or Need-to-Know? Ground Rules for the Walkthrough. A Short DocBook DTD Walkthrough. 13. HTML: SGML for the World Wide Web. Warning to Two Kinds of Readers. The Universe of the World Wide Web. World Wide Web Infrastructure. WWW Documents. WWW Viewers. The Core Enabling Technology of the Web. HTML Background. HTML's Targeted Environment. HTML and Other SGML Applications: Differences. HTML and Other SGML Applications: Similarities. Basic HTML Markup. Title. Headers. Paragraph. Anchor. Images. Lists, In-line Element Types. Preformatted Text. Basic HTML and Beyond. 14. HyTime: SGML for Hypermedia. Why HyTime? Does Hypermedia Require the Power of HyTime? Is HyTime Different from SGML? How is a HyTime Document Presented? How Does HyTime Extend SGML? What Does an Architectural Form Look Like? Architectural Form Versus Element Type. HyTime Just for Hypertext Linking? Review: Standardizing a Hypertext Link with HyTime. Appendix A. More on the World Wide Web. Uniform Resource Locators. Is HTML a Standard? Where to Go Next? Appendix B. Glossary of ISO/x118879 Terms Used in This Book. Appendix C. SGML Markup of Chapter 10. Markup of Chapter 10. DTD used. Index.