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From: scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: Re: SGML question
Keywords: encyclopedia, sgml
Message-ID: <170@thor.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 90 15:35:50 GMT
References: <45617@cornell.UUCP>
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In article <45617@cornell.UUCP>, allan@rind.cs.cornell.edu (James Allan) writes:
> 
> Well, asl ong as this newsgroup exists, I suppose I might as well post a
> question.  I'm doing a little bit of work with an encyclopedia which was
> given to us for research work in SGML format.  There are a couple of
> things in the text which I don't have any documentation for and am
> not totally sure of.
> 
> Some articles in this encyclopedia contain cross references to other articles
> and they use some SGML syntax to do that.  Are those commands part of
> SGML or extensions?  How can I find out what the "base" SGML is (if
> it exists)?

SGML is a syntactic standard, not a semantic standard.  That is, it
describes what the markup should look like, but not what it means.
If you want to know about SGML, it is ISO standard 8879 which is
available from ANSI, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY  10018
212-354-3300.  If you want to know about the markup in your
encyclopedia, you need to ask the author or publisher.
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