C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and R.F. Goldstein. Html to the max a manifesto for adding sgml intelligence to the world-wide web. In Electronic Proceedings of Second World Wide Web Conference 94: Mosaic and the Web, 1994. Electronic Publication: http://www.ncsa.uicu.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings /Autools/sperberg-mcqueen/sperberg.html.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....2.3 The advantages of markup languages HTML has been extremely successful in allowing unsophisticated network users to become authors of fairly complex documents, even in the absence of widespread editing tools. Nonetheless, there has been in the past two or three years a widespread awareness ([15]) that HTML has reached its potential, and that a change of paradigm was necessary. The major drawback of HTML is that it allows only a pre specified set of elements. Authors can only use these elements, and have to limit their authoring needs to what is available within the existing language, or ....

....allows only a pre specified set of elements. Authors can only use these elements, and have to limit their authoring needs to what is available within the existing language, or to force these elements beyond their intended meaning. HTML is an application of the Standard Generalized Markup Language [15], that is, a class of documents conforming to the SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) that describes HTML documents . SGML, being a meta language describing classes of documents rather than one specific class, is free of the above mentioned limitations of HTML: by appropriately creating a custom ....

C. Sperberg-McQueen and R. Goldstein. HTML to the Max: A Manifesto for Adding SGML Intelligence to the Wold-Wide Web. In Proc. 2nd Int. WWW Conf.: Mosaic and the Web, page (Electronic proceedings), 1994.

....concerning the basic SGML concepts and the active document examples has been adapted from Animating the Web An SGML based approach [5] which describes the architecture of our Web browser in more detail. RELATED WORK Advantages of SGML aware Web browsers (and servers) are discussed in [6]. Various style sheet languages for SGML documents have been proposed. An ambitious proposal is the Document Style Semantics and Specification Language [7] which is a (draft) ISO standard. DSSSL Online [8] specifies a subset of DSSSL to implement style sheets to be used by SGML browsers. Several ....

....the parser to generate a complete and validated document instance. Note that this task could be performed by an HTTP server as well, which would significantly simplify the design and implementation of Web clients. Therefore, there are strong arguments to add SGML functionality to servers as well [6]. Style sheet Style sheets define how the various elements should be processed. The hush browser (see figure 1) defines a default style for HTML elements. However, these styles can be redefined and extended by a document instance using a special processing instruction, notated as stylesheet ....

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Robert F. Goldstein, `HTML to the Max --- A Manifesto for Adding SGML Intelligence to the World-Wide Web', in Proceedings of the Second International World Wide Web Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web, (October 1994).

....2.3 The advantages of markup languages HTML has been extremely successful in allowing unsophisticated network users to become authors of fairly complex documents, even in the absence of widespread editing tools. Nonetheless, there has been in the past two or three years a widespread awareness ([28]) that HTML has reached its potential, and that a change of paradigm was necessary. The major drawback of HTML is that it allows only a pre specified set of elements. Authors can only use these elements, and have to limit their authoring needs to what is available within the existing language, or ....

....allows only a pre specified set of elements. Authors can only use these elements, and have to limit their authoring needs to what is available within the existing language, or to force these elements beyond their intended meaning. HTML is an application of the Standard Generalized Markup Language [28], that is, a class of documents conforming to the SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) that describes HTML documents . SGML, being a meta language describing classes of documents rather than one specific class, is free of the above mentioned limitations of HTML: by appropriately creating a custom ....

C. Sperberg-McQueen and R. Goldstein. HTML to the Max: A Manifesto for Adding SGML Intelligence to the Wold-Wide Web. In Proc. 2nd Int. WWW Conf.: Mosaic and the Web, page (Electronic proceedings), 1994.

....structuring of information. HTML also lacks many desirable features for following the links; it only provides simple unidirectional links, with no semantics on the links themselves. Some approaches have been proposed to make up for HTML deficiencies by adding some SGML intelligence to the Web [21]. Particularly promising is the proposal for a new standard, XML [9] which could bring the power of SGML to the 2 Anonymous Document Interpreter Prescription Document parameters Virtual Documents data source HTML OODB data source SGML data source database result other data source FIGURE 1: The ....

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Robert F. Goldstein. Html to the max: A manifesto for adding SGML intelligence to the world-wide web. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 28, pages 3--11, 1995.

....a document type definition or DTD. Note that the idea of defining a fine tuned markup language for each document type is the exact opposite of the one size, fits all approach of current HTMLbased web browsers. Many other advantages of having SGML aware Web browsers (and servers) are discussed in [29]. An SGML document essentially consists of two parts: a prolog, containing the document type declaration, followed by the document instance, containing the data interspersed with markup. Document instance A document instance is a hierarchical structure of (possibly empty) elements, where each ....

....the parser to generate a complete and validated document instance. Note that this task could be performed by an HTTP server as well, which would significantly simplify the design and implementation of web clients. Therefore, there are strong arguments to add SGML functionality to servers as well [29]. Style sheet Style sheets define how the various elements should be processed. The hush browser (see figure 4) defines a default style for HTML elements. However, these styles can be redefined and extended by a document instance using a special processing instruction, notated as stylesheet ....

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Robert F. Goldstein, HTML to the Max --- A Manifesto for Adding SGML Intelligence to the World-Wide Web, Proceedings of the Second International World Wide Web Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web, October 1994

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C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and R.F. Goldstein. Html to the max a manifesto for adding sgml intelligence to the world-wide web. In Electronic Proceedings of Second World Wide Web Conference 94: Mosaic and the Web, 1994. Electronic Publication: http://www.ncsa.uicu.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings /Autools/sperberg-mcqueen/sperberg.html.

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Sperberg-McQueen, C. M., and R. F. Goldstein. "HTML to the max: A manifesto for adding SGML intelligence to the world wide web". In Proceedings of the Second Web Conference (Chicago, Oct. 1994).

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