Paper Info
Title
Processing SGML documents
Abstract
SUMMARY SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is an ISO Standard that specifies a language for document representation. The main idea behind SGML is to strictly separate the structure and contents of a document from the processing of that document. This results in application-independent and thus reusable documents. To gain the full benefit of this approach, tools are needed to support a wide range of applications. The Standard itself does not define how to specify the processing of documents. Many existing SGML systems allow for a simple translation of an SGML document, which exhibits a 1-1 correspondence between elements in the SGML document and its translation. For many applications this does not suffice. In other systems the processing can be expressed in a special-purpose programming language. In this paper the various approaches to processing SGML documents are assessed. We also discuss a novel approach, taken in the Amsterdam SGML Parser. In this approach, processing actions are embedded in the grammar rules that specify the document structure, much like processing actions are embedded in grammars of programming languages that are input to a parser generator. The appendix contains an extended example of the use of this approach.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1991
Electronic Publishing
sgml parser generators application generators data translation structured documents reusability,processing sgml document,document structure,standard generalized markup language,programming language
Field
DocType
Volume
SGML,Programming language,Computer science,Document Structure Description,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,SGML entity,Processing Instruction,Document type declaration,Information retrieval,Document processing,Parsing,Database,Document type definition
Journal
4
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
3
0.82
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jos Warmer121241.21
Hans van Vliet21873136.26