A Gentle Introduction to SGML

Chapter two of Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P3)

Edited by:

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard

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Table of contents

• 1 A Gentle Introduction to SGML
• 2 What's Special about SGML?
• 2.1 Descriptive Markup
• 2.2 Types of Document
• 2.3 Data Independence
• 3 Textual Structure
• 4 SGML Structures
• 4.1 Elements
• 4.2 Content Models: An Example
• 5 Defining SGML Document Structures: The DTD
• 5.1 An Example DTD
• 5.2 Minimization Rules
• 5.3 Content Model
• 5.4 Occurrence Indicators
• 5.5 Group Connectors
• 5.6 Model Groups
• 6 Complicating the Issue: More on Element Declarations
• 6.1 Exceptions to the Content Model
• 6.2 Concurrent Structures
• 7 Attributes
• 8 SGML Entities
• 9 Marked Sections
• 10 Putting It All Together
• 10.1 The SGML Declaration
• 10.2 The DTD
• 10.3 The Document Instance
• 11 Using SGML