On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:31:58 +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> which is the easiest way to read formatted sgml docs in potato?
SGML is a language in which you can define the structure documents must
conform by writing DTDs == document type definitions. Well-known DTDs are
those for HTML and DocBook.
"SGML docs" is therefore a very sloppy term, and there is not really such
thing as an "SGML viewer".
> I haven't found any simple sgml viewer, there are only formaters to other
> formats.
That's right. Writing documents using SGML DTDs is about _structure_, not
about _formatting_ (aka _layout_). Such documents can be formatted using an
additional specification of how particular structure elements are to be
rendered (in particular contexts); DSSSL and XSL are standards that deal
with this. The output of this rendering process can be just about every
presentation format; typical examples include PDF, PostScript and plain
text.
HTH,
Ray
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