SGML

XML stuff is in its own section.

Standards, and central resources:

• The SGML web page aims to be `helpful for researchers who need a basic orientation to SGML, especially with respect to resources freely available on the Internet'. An excellent resource (individual parts of which are pointed to below), is the list of SGML Special Topics. The SGML pages are located at Oasis (formerly SGMLOpen). [The SGML page was previously at www.sil.org, and you may occasionally see references to pages there. Translate to the new location by replacing the prefix http://www.sil.org/sgml/... by http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/....]
• ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4 manages most of the standards here. They have a resource list of WG4 standards, which includes the recent SGML Technical Corrigendum ISO 8879 TC2 (aka, ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4 N1955), and Goldfarb's collection of all the changes to ISO 8879 since 1988 (ie, TC1 and TC2), ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4 N1983. Also at ORNL is JTC1/SC34 N0029 - Final text of revised TC2 to ISO 8879:1986 (merged text of TC2 and TC3) (mirrored at sgmlsource).
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, Information Technology - Document Description and Processing Languages has taken over from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 and ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4 as the maintainers of the standards covered here, including SGML, DSSSL and HyTime.
• The newsgroup comp.text.sgml is a source of high-quality discussion on SGML. Several SGML gurus (Goldfarb, Kimber, Clark...) seem to read and contribute to it. Because of their contributions, this group, unlike the majority of Usenet groups, is an almost primary source of SGML insight. You can refer to this group using DejaNews, but I have a collection of useful postings from the group in Appendix SGML exegeses.
• ISO 8879:1986 (just pointers to the paper standard)
• JTC1 has a collection of web pages.
• SGML Syntax Summary: `This document shows the syntactic productions of SGML, with hyperlinks to simplify their study'.

Other standards-like documents:

• Oasis technical publications, including Technical Resolution 9401:1997, Entity Management

General tutorials:

• The Gentle Introduction to SGML from the TEI is an excellent introductions to SGML. SoftQuad used to have a very good `SGML primer', but the link is now dead, and their front page is so user-hostile (ie, it insists on javascript) that I can't be bothered searching it out again.
• SGML: Introductions and Overviews at the SGML pages.
• SGML Declarations: tutorial introduction to SGML declarations.
• Web SGML and HTML 4.0 Explained, by Martin Bryan. An excellent account of SGML, including the WebSGML adaptations.
• Brief SGML FAQ for comp.text.sgml and FAQ for the mailbase sgml list (unfortunately, some of the pointers there seem a little out of date).

Contents

• HyTime and Architectural Forms
• DSSSL
• HTML
• SGML tools
• Maths and SGML/HTML
• SGML applications and experiments
• SGML people
• Other interesting documents/tutorials