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ACCESSING ARCHIVED INFORMATION ON SGML;
SAMPLE SGML MARKED-UP DOCUMENT
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What follows are two versions of the same document. The first
version is a summary of how to access and retrieve files about
SGML from ftp, gopher and WAIS sites. The second is a marked up
version (in SGML, of course!) of the summary.
[Thanks to the SGML Newswire subscriber who contributed this
information.]
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SGML (STANDARD GENERALIZED MARKUP LANGUAGE)
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SGML is a standard document markup language, increasingly
used for marking up documents for interchange and for use
with multiple document processing tools. The sites mentioned
below all mirror each other to some degree.
SEARCH the WAIS database SGML.src.
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One of the best SGML information archives is maintained by
the International SGML Users Group at the University of
Oslo:
GO using ftp to ftp.ifi.uio.no.
GET the FAQ file (a must for novice SGMLlers).
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There is also SGML information at sunnyside.com:
GO using gopher to sunnyside.com.
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At Exeter, the SGML Project maintains a site that includes
the archive of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), a major
SGML effort aimed at representing historical literature,
among other things:
GO using ftp to sgml1.ex.ac.uk.
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And documents produced by the SGML Users' Group's (SGML-UG)
Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia (SIGhyper)
may be searched by WAIS:
SEARCH the WAIS database SIGHyper.src.
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The University of Virginia Rare Book School has an archive of
historical texts marked up in SGML, with plain text versions,
and in some cases images of the documents:
GO using gopher to orion.lib.virginia.edu.
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SGML SAMPLE MARKUP DOCUMENT
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SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)
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SGML is a standard document markup language, increasingly used
for marking up documents for interchange and for use with multiple
document processing tools. The sites mentioned below all mirror
each other to some degree.
At Exeter, the SGML Project maintains a site that includes the
archive of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), a major SGML effort
aimed at representing historical literature, among other things:
The University of Virginia Rare Book School has an archive of
historical texts marked up in SGML, with plain text versions, and in
some cases images of the documents:
using gopher to
orion.lib.virginia.edu.
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