viewing sgml documentation
Hello,
many documents in debian are written in SGML.
What's the recommended way to read them?
-> "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <dm@zensunni.demon.nl>
-> > 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.
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