Article: Getting your data into SGML. (Standard General Markup Language) (Tutorial)

This article addresses the key issues in large-scale, one-time conversions of legacy data to SGML, Standard General Markup Language. It is based on experience in converting databases to SGML as well as to other electronic publishing systems.

SGML makes it easier to maintain data and to present it in new ways by providing a methodical and flexible approach to modeling information.

Conversion is an important issue because you are rarely starting anew. There is usually a large stack of documents already in existence. The alternative to converting these documents is to maintain two parallel systems for an indefinite period. In an environment in which documents ...

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