Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml Subject: Re: ATA SGML definition? Message-ID: <1990Sep11.163347.7593@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 11 Sep 90 16:33:47 GMT References: <141829@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>> <8027@mcshh.hanse.de> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 32 schiers@mcshh.hanse.de (Carsten Schiers) writes: >Hi there, >just as a starter at this forum: >does anybody know, whether there is allready a DTD for ATA conform SGML? >I will start at Deutsche Airbus soon and heared about the fact that we >have to produce a CALS-like output format. As I understand it, there is >furthermore the need to make everything ATA conform. >Any comments? One, but not an answer to your question. Part of the reason for this new group is to foster interest in and spread knowledge about SMGL. I don't know about others, but I'm reading from a knowledge base of near zero about SMGL and a lot of the involved related material, just to see what is going on in a field related to my own interest of text layout software. Please take the time to spell out acronyms, and do your best to post material clear enough to be read by a wide audience, not just those already familiar with the material, everyone. OK? After reading the above question, I can hazard a guess the DTD might be some kind of a standard, and ATA some kind of governing body (and, by the way, in English, that's "conformant", not "conform", if I do understand the direction of your sentence); and SMGL I know to be a markup language, but it should still be spelled out in article bodies at least once, even if in its very own newsgroup, and the others are a mystery as presented ("DTD", "ATA"); my guesses might be quite wrong. Kent, the man from xanth.