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DeRose, Steven J.  The SGML FAQ Book: Understanding the Foundation of
    HTML and XML.  Electronic Publishing Series, Number 7.
    Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
    Extent:  xxiv + 250 pages, appendices.  ISBN: 0-7923-9943-9. Steve
    DeRose is Chief Scientist at Inso Electronic Publishing Solutions, and
    an editor of the XML standard, i.e., XLL (Extensible Linking Language).
 
The SGML FAQ Book is a long-overdue book that explains counter- and
non-intuitive particulars of the ISO 8879:1986 (SGML) metalanguage which
have regularly 'tripped up' both novices and formal language experts.
The book thus answers a plethora of practical and theoretical (technical)
SGML FAQs that have been heard on the Networks for many years.  The SGML
FAQ Book is at once a 'practical' handbook which will help SGML users
avoid common pitfalls, and a technical manual to assist SGML
application designers and software developers.  It is by far the most
detailed technical commentary on the SGML standard ever published.
 
The central section of the book, which answers some 106 "Questions"
about SGML (or 150 questions, depending on how you count) is divided
into seven chapters, based upon the "most likely need to know"
principle.  Questions arising from different kinds of tasks and
different categories of SGML users thus shape the chapters' content.
Answers to common SGML questions are answered:
 
  (1) For Authors and Document Editors Using SGML Tools
  (2) For Authors and Document Editors Who Commonly Deal With Raw SGML
  (3) For Data Conversion Specialists
  (4) For Authors And Editors Using External Data Or Modifying DTDs
  (5) For Builders of SGML DTDs
  (6) For Builders of SGML DTDs Who Must Constrain Data In Special Ways
  (7) For Builders of SGML DTDs and SGML Declarations.
 
The volume is indexed, and contains several useful appendices.
 
For more information, see:
 
a) The main bibliography entry in the SGML Web Page:
 
        http://www.sil.org/sgml/bib-ce.html#deroseFAQBook
 
b) The detailed Table of Contents, including the list of major "Questions"
   answered in the book:
 
        http://www.sil.org/sgml/deroseFAQ-TOC.html
 
c) Endorsements for the book from SGML experts (Joseph V. Gangemi,
   Sharon Adler, Anders Berglund, Eric van Herwijnen):
 
        http://www.sil.org/sgml/deroseFAQ-END.html
 
d) The publisher's description:
 
        http://www.sil.org/sgml/deroseFAQ-DES.html   (or:)
        http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/book.htm?0-7923-9943-9
 
-- Robin Cover
 
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