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The SGML Handbook (Hardcover)

by Charles F. Goldfarb (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 688 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; annotated edition edition (17 Jan 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0198537379
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198537373
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.6 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,679,504 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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This book is the one you must have to understand SGML and exploit all its many possibilities.' Computer Books Review

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The next five years will see a revolution in computing. Users will no longer have to work at every computer task as if they had no need or ability to share data with all their other computer tasks, they will not need to act as if the computer is simply a replacement for paper, nor will they have to appease computers or software programs that seem to be at war with one another. The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is the technical advance enabling this revolution, and Dr Charles Goldfarb of the IBM Almaden Research Center is its inventor. The SGML Handbook gives the reader Dr Goldfarb's thoughts on each clause in this widely adopted international standard, and guides the reader through every detail of SGML. The SGML Handbook includes the up-to-date amended full text of ISO 8879, extensively annotated, cross-referenced, and indexed; a detailed, structured overview of SGML, covering every concept; additional tutorial and reference material; a unique 'push-button access system' that provides hypertext links between the standard, annotations, overview, and tutorials. SGML will improve the productivity and competitiveness of all computer users if its sophistication is now harnessed by developers of SGML applications and implementors of SGML systems. These are the people who will find this book an invaluable guide and an authoritative voice.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Turgid, obscure, confusing; but essential for advanced SGML., 7 Aug 1996
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This is a particularly badly written book on a particularly badly designed and written standard, SGML.

However, SGML is so far the only reasonably universal and standard way of marking up text, and this is the only comprehensive treatment of it, including all the peculiar little bits that you probably should never use. The book includes the full text of the ISO standard as well as cross-references and annotation.

The book, like the standard, uses terminology and notation which are not standard in the rest of computer science. The tutorial material is weak. The book design is ugly and hard to read.

Yet SGML, bad as it is, is an important and useful standard, and this is a comprehensive reference for it. Let us hope that both the standard and the book will be improved radically in the future.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The official ISO standard., 4 Feb 1996
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This is not the first book you should read about SGML, but if you are going to do any serious development in SGML, you need this on your bookshelf. It contains the entire text of the ISO standard, plus Goldfarb's annotations.
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