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SGML to the rescue: Using SGML with modern HTML

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DocEng '19: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019

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This tutorial will explore techniques for parsing and processing HTML 5 using SGML, the original markup meta-language on which both XML and HTML are based. The tutorial will re-introduce requisite SGML concepts and introduce a new SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) grammar covering W3C's current HTML specification text.

The main part of the tutorial is dedicated to hands-on exercises for practical tasks in working with HTML markup. The tutorial will conclude with a discussion on current developments in HTML standardization and potential consequences for the markup and standardization communities.

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SGML to the rescue: Using SGML with modern HTML
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Multimedia information systems
  2. World Wide Web
    1. Web data description languages
      1. Markup languages
        Hypertext languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Markup languages

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DocEng '19: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019

September 2019

254 pages

ISBN:9781450368872

DOI:10.1145/3342558

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