SGML applications and experiments

ISO-HTML.

An ISO standard for HTML, which is a subset of HTML 4.0, missing presentational bits, and all the gimmicky extras.

CML - Chemical Markup Language

Plus an example.

VHG - virtual hyperglossary

Another application from the same folk as CML.

CALS tables

Oasis have defined a subset of the CALS table model, known as the Exchange Table Model. The SGML pages have a collection of CALS pointers, including a pointer to a collection of CALS DTDs.

EAD - Encoded Archival Description

This is all about `finding aids', which are `detailed guides to primary source material which provide fuller information than that normally contained within cataloging records'. I see no reason why these mightn't be applied to astronomical archives.

WSD

An experiment by Peter Flynn which includes an example of SUBDOC.

On the Road to XML

`Remaking the Linux Documentation Project as a Digital Library'

TEI and XML in Digital Libraries

Workshop covering library applications of the TEI guidelines, specifically in digital libraries.

Handling Binary Data in XML Documents

Notes on how to include binary data within XML (and SGML, really)

PassiveTeX

Sebastian Rahtz: a demonstration of LaTeX reading XSL Formatting Objects and processing them to produce nice pages.

Astronomical (and other scientific) applications

• XML at Goddard:
  • ADC XML Software Development Page
  • XDF
  • FITSML: an XML version of FITS
• XML for Astronomy mailing list at Goddard.
• Several applications at ADASS 98, including AML - astronomical markup language, Formatting Journal Tables in XML at the ADC.
• Workshop, From Information to Knowledge Using Astronomical Databases, from which appeared First attempt of an XML description for Tabular Data (CDS)
• XSIL: Extensible Scientific Interchange Language
• ESML: earth sciences

DocBook

DocBook is a well-known and well-supported DTD for technical manuals. The DocBook homepage (used to be at O'Reilly) is a centre for information about the DTD itself, tools which work with it, and documentation on how to use it.

DocBook documentation I've seen (often useful for their introductions to SGML in general) includes:

• DocBook: The Definitive Guide
• Get Going With DocBook
• FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors. This is, obviously, specific to this project, but it includes useful introductory material.

Text Encoding Initiative

The Text Encoding Initiative is a long-running project which has produced a large, comprehensive DTD for the humanities.

• Home
• TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange: Virginia, or Oxford
• The TEI Pizza Chef - roll your own TEI subset.
• TeX in TEI