SGML: HyTime Application Development Guide in HTML

Subject: HyTime Application Development Guide in HTML

Date: Tue, 21 May 96 18:03:20 EDT

From: Derek Denny-Brown <derdb@techno.com>

Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml


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As an additional resource for anyone interested in HyTime, Ralph
Ferris's _HyTime_Application_Development_Guide_ has been converted to
HTML.  The original SGML (DocBook DTD) is available as before at

  http://www.techno.com/hadg/base.sgm

but now for the many SGML deprived web wanderers, there is:

  http://www.techno.com/hadg/html/

which is the same document, but in html.  It is broken up into
subdocuments to help load latency, each with next-previous links and
such.  Also, all the images were converted to GIF, and will save
significant bandwidth (thanks to GIF's compression).  This conversion
is a work-in-progress, so any advice is welcome and expect it to be
slowly updated as I find more formatting problems.  I may even look at
using Netscape frames to implement a Netscape interface similar to
Panorama.

I used SGMLSpm to convert the document and despite early reservations,
now heartily recommend this tool to people converting documents.  I
have yet to implement context sensitivity which is recursive-clean but
everything else is beautifully easy, if you like perl.  If anyone has
a URL for SGMLSpm, I will put a link to it in the generated document
(along with my credit to it at the bottom of every page.)

Much thanx to the various people who sent me advice on converting a
DocBook SGML document to HTML, w/o you all, this would have taken much
longer.. and a special thanx to all you who invest your time to
writing tools as usefull as SGMLSpm.

-derek

     If a bus stops at the bus-station, and a train stops at the
       train-station, what happens at a workstation? -- unknown
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