61. Books: Recent Books Written By William R. Stanek You ll also find extensive coverage of CGI, sgml, server administration, This special edition comes with dozens of web publishing tools and server http://www.tvpress.com/writing/writing2.htm

Books by William R. Stanek Response from readers has been phenomenal. If you visit some of the major bookstores on-line, you'll find an awful lot of praise for my books. Check out the reader reviews at Amazon.Com or the ongoing chat in the Barnes and Noble online discussion area if you care to. I don't pretend to understand what the fuss is all about but a reader who recently read an article I wrote for PC Magazine on CORBA/IIOP and distributed computing summed it up pretty well by saying "Reading your article was an eye-opening experience. You managed to introduce the whole of [distributed computing] in lucid detail. I've attempted to read entire books on the subject and this same material would have filled several chapters yet you did what they couldn't with only a few pages. You've got a new fan." My only hope is that readers continue to enjoy my work and let me know from time to time how my books and articles help them get ahead. If you are looking for a computer book, I hope you'll check out the books listed below. Learn the Internet In A Weekend Publisher: Prima Publishing Publication Date: December, 1997

62. A Look At XML / WebDeveloper.com ® XML allows generic sgml to be served, received, and processed on the web in a and data checking necessary for largescale commercial web publishing. http://webdeveloper.com/xml/xml_a_look_at_xml.html

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63. Reviews Of Web Publishing Books -- *Writers Write -- The IWJ* The book provides an introduction to XML which explains the differences betweenXML, sgml and HTML, what XML is and how it is a useful web publishing tool. http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/apr98/comp.htm

April, 1998 Index Interviews: Evelyn Coleman Douglas Cooper G. Wayne Miller Articles: Writing Query Letters That Sell Where Do You Get Your Ideas...? (Part II) Tracking Your Submissions Features: An Inside Look At... Atlantic Unbound Book Reviews The HowToWeb ... Subscribe Computer/Web Design Book Reviews Page One of Two The Cold Fusion Web Application Construction Kit 2nd Ed. by Ben Forta Que, Feb., 1998. Trade Paperback, 1024 pages. ISBN: 0789714140 Ordering information: Amazon.com. Amazon.co.uk Cold Fusion is a web application development platform from software company Allaire. This excellent guidebook to Cold Fusion, which also comes with a CD-ROM that contains a free thirty-day trial of the software, helps to get you up to speed on this powerful tool. The first and second sections of the book cover an introduction to Cold Fusion, installation procedures and administration of Cold Fusion using your browser. The third part of the book covers basic topics including creating databases and tables, SQL, Cold Fusion forms, form data validation and debugging and troubleshooting. The fourth section covers more advanced topics including advanced SQL, online commerce, transaction processing, cookies, directory services, event scheduling and custom tags. The last section includes appendixes with quick reference indexes on Cold Fusion functions and tags. Coverage of Cold Fusion Studio, an interactive development environment, is also included in the book. This comprehensive book provides concrete instruction on Cold Fusion which can aid the reader in developing simple and complex online applications to enhance websites. A recommended book for any serious Cold Fusion developer.

64. BUBL LINK: Electronic Publishing Subjects electronic journal production, electronic publishing, web page design Subjects electronic publishing, sgml DeweyClass 070.5 http://bubl.ac.uk/link/e/electronicpublishing.htm

BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources Home Search Subject Menus Countries ... Z Electronic publishing Titles Descriptions Ariadne BIBLINK British Library Research and Innovation Centre Reports and Papers Canada's SchoolNet ... Work of the Encyclopedia in the Age of Electronic Reproduction Comments: bubl@bubl.ac.uk Ariadne A print and Web magazine of Internet issues for librarians and information specialists. Aims to describe and evaluate sources and services on the Internet relevant to the LIS profession, and report on progress and developments within the Electronic Libraries Programme. Back issues available online from 1996. Author: UKOLN and University of Bath Subjects: digital library research, digital library use, electronic publishing, internet resource evaluation, library and information science news, library internet use DeweyClass: Resource type: magazine BIBLINK Collaborative project between the national libraries of Europe and publishers of electronic material to devise authoritative ways of describing electronic publications for catalogues and other listings. Includes a study of metadata and the transmission of data between publishers and libraries. Funded under the European Commission's Telematics Applications Project. Author: British Library and partners Subjects: electronic publishing, european publishers, metadata

65. Software Programming Institute/School, India. Diploma In Multimedia, web publishing, Designing, Engineering sgml is a verycomplex language mainly used in big government departments, companies and http://compufield.com/multimedia_web_engineering_software.html

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67. ANNOUNCE: GCA Conference XML is the onramp to sgml, the web and Intranet publishing! XML (ExtensibleMarkup Language) provides the key benefits of sgml in a lightweight, http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/199702/post40000.html

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68. SGML And The Web For those who have encoded their text in sgml the web remains an economical SoftQuad also recently got its Panorama publishing System included on the US http://www.seyboldreports.com/SRIP/subs/0109/IP010908.HTM

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing May 1997 Publications Home Full-text search Customer service Site Map ... Subscribe SGML and the Web For those who have encoded their text in SGML the Web remains an economical outputmedium. New York was our first opportunityto see Agave, which marries SGML to relational databases. We also looked at new versions of two different, and established, display options: DynaWeb and Panorama. Agave links SGML and SQL Agave provides solutions to link documents and legacy databases. Key to its offering are the SQml extensions to SGML. Adding a few lines to the dtd enables the parsing of sql statements and outputs the results fully formatted to the finished pages. An example of using SQml to embed SQL code in an HTML page. Agave's SQml-CGI is a server-based application based on Common Gateway Interface scripts. Since it is SGML compliant, it is fairly straightforward to include links to sql and odbc databases in existing HTML or SGML documents. The application parser intercepts a Post or Get operator and forwards the query request to the database server. The database server can be external to the document server, but they must reside on the same network. The database returns the information to the application, which inserts the appropriate formatting codes from the original script for viewing in a standard Web browser. It's possible to create complex data relationships by nesting queries. It's also possible to combine SQml queries and JavaScript to create graphics and animation and other interactive elements.

69. Web Publishing Systems When shopping for a system to help manage the web publishing process, But withthe exception of the sgml vendors, such as Texcel, Xyvision and Chrystal, http://www.seyboldreports.com/SRIP/subs/0203/IP020302.HTM

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing November 1997 Publications Home Full-text search Customer service Site Map ... Subscribe Web Publishing Systems Content management software for Web sites has become a market, but so has Web-enabled document management. The intersection of the two, and their overlap with site authoring and project management, makes it difficult to evaluate products. We draw some broad distinctions to help classify current products. Wiley's personalized pages. At the InterScience site, powered by Zuno's server, customers can mark favorite journals and documents, save queries and add annotations. Content management: Killer app? Publishing has become the proving ground for technology with very broad appeal. Content management will be critical for all large businesses, not just those with big manuals or large publication archives. The economics and response times of online delivery are so compelling that a whole new technology base is rising up to bring content-driven service to the mainstream. Content management will be critical for all large businesses, not just those with big manuals or large archives of published material. As Bill Gates noted under questioning by Jonathan Seybold at the conference, mainstream software suppliers, such as Microsoft, have recognized that publishing has become the proving ground for rolling out technology that will have very broad appeal. Before long, the technology and process changes will spread to midsize and smaller businesses. The value that content management will bring to businesses of all types will fuel development of base technology that publishers will be able to take advantage of in creating electronic publications. It will take time, but the more significant change will be that in the years ahead, publishers will see their

70. Free Courses For ACM Members XML, Perl, and web publishing (6 tracks, 20 courses) + A Developer s Introduction to This course begins by examining how XML compares to HTML and sgml, http://pd.acm.org/full_listing2A.cfm?pre=XMLPWS

71. Scholarly Publishing And The Fluid World Wide Web Keywords Electronic publishing; scholarly publishing; sgml; HTML; URL; Scholarly web publishing has a range of possibilities with respect to fixity. http://www.csu.edu.au/special/conference/apwww95/papers95/atreloar/atreloar.html

Local time: Monday, 26-Sep-2005 09:31:17 EST Last update: at /special/conference/apwww95 , Friday, 21-May-2004 09:46:49 EST Scholarly Publishing and the Fluid World Wide Web Andrew Treloar School of Computing and Mathematics Deakin University , Rusden Campus, 662 Blackburn Road Clayton, 3168, Australia. Phone +61 3 9244 7461. Fax +61 3 9244 7460. Email: Andrew.Treloar@deakin.edu.au Home Page: http://www.deakin.edu.au/people/aet/ Abstract Scholarly publishing has traditionally taken place using the medium of print. This paper will discuss the transition to electronic scholarly publishing and how the fluid nature of the Web introduces special problems. These problems include document linking, document invariance, document durability, and changing standards. Keywords Electronic publishing; scholarly publishing; SGML; HTML; URL; URN; durability; fixity; standards. Note on Citations As the citations need to be accessible on the Web and in print, the following procedure has been followed. All bibliographic citations in the text are hyper-linked to an anchor in the reference list at the end of this paper. This allows the reader easily to check the detail of the citation and determine if they wish to access it. Cited works for which there exists a URL can then be accessed by clicking on the text of the URL itself, which will be given in full after the citation information. Selecting Go back will, in most Web browsers, return to the original location in the main text.

72. ScienceDaily -- Browse Topics: Science/Chemistry/Software/Web_Publishing More news about web publishing . 1. Search Evolution of Networks From Biological sgml/XML at OASIS Homepage of the sgml/XML web Page database. http://www.sciencedaily.com/directory/Science/Chemistry/Software/Web_Publishing

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73. Web Publishing XML (sgml) has been used for storing content in scientific publishing companiesfor many The World Wide web was invented to help sharing of scientific http://www9.org/industry-publishing.html

Chairman: Michael E. Dreisch, Business Strategist UPC Michael Dreisch is a Business Strategist for UPC, Europe's largest MSO. Michael is responsible for strategy and future development with respect to UPC's Internet and media properties in the Netherlands. He has a MBA from Nyenrode University, the Netherlands School of Business and is a member of the Board of Directors of ISOC.nl. Moderator: Polly Sprenger, London Correspondent Industry Standard Polly Sprenger is London correspondent for the Industry Standard,"the news magazine of the Internet economy." Sprenger has written about the Internet and technology for a number of publications, including Wired News, The Guardian, The Independent, Playboy.com, New Media Magazine, and Internet World. Date : May 16, 2000 Time Presenter Title Abstract Michael Dreisch, Chairman Introduction none Ilhan Aksoycan, Director Internet Publishing Services (VIPS) VNU Within the multinational publishing and information company VNU, Ilhan Aksoycan has initiated the European Internet facilities platform VIPS. He is the director of VIPS which delivers the technology and applications platforms for the Internet ventures of VNU. Although his focus of the last three years is Internet he has 20 years experience in the management of technology, especially ICT, in banking, applied research, engineering and construction industries. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering as well as an MBA degree.

74. RELease 1.0: Papago Room: Web Authoring - World Wide Web The move to enhance word processing tools to deal with publishing on the web is sgml Edition is probably overkill for the casual web page creator, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0REL/is_n2_v95/ai_16778692

@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles RELease 1.0 Feb 23, 1995 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Featured Titles for AI Magazine Advanced Battery Technology America's Network BT Catalyst ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Papago room: Web authoring - World Wide Web RELease 1.0 Feb 23, 1995 Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. If Web authoring sounds too difficult to try, don't be dissuaded. Attendees won't need PhDs in HTML to do it. You can start with templates in souped-up versions of your favorite word processors. Or you can use those word processors to cannibalize pages you like. So surf for a while, mark the pages you like and save the source files. (This will all make sense once you sit down and try it out. If you'd like a gentler introduction, get a tour in the Sedona room first.) Quarterdeck and WordPerfect will demonstrate their Web authoring tools in this room. The move to enhance word processing tools to deal with publishing on the Web is natural and powerful. One can publish to paper or fax for audiences that often number only one, to e-mail (with carbon copies) for slightly larger audiences, or to the Web, where vastly larger audiences can see it. Microsoft has also taken this tack with its Internet Assistant, a free Word add-on package that offers Web authoring (currently, available for downloading, in beta release).

75. Emedia Professional: Visualizing XML Regardless of publishing medium, you will be able to publish a document s contentonce and A free XMLaware web browser, or a costly sgml-XML viewer? http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FXG/is_3_12/ai_54277885

@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles Emedia Professional March 1999 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Related Searches XML (Document markup language) / Computer programs Computer software industry / Marketing Featured Titles for AI Magazine Advanced Battery Technology America's Network BT Catalyst ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Visualizing XML Emedia Professional March, 1999 by Robert J. Boeri Martin Hensel Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. has anybody actually seen XML on-screen? Not just snippets of code, but XML in rich fonts and page layouts, perhaps rendered in living color? Such XML sightings are as rare as alien abductions everywhere but the X-Files. Yet XML (Extensible Markup Language) is all the rage, both as a data interchange standard and as a successor to HTML for Web publishing. In 1998, XML saw as much action as an interchange standard as it did serving its original purpose: a flexible Web-publishing alternative to HTML. The reason? The year-old XML standard, like its venerable SGML standard antecedent, intentionally omits guidelines for document presentation. XML's presentational aspects are defined in Extensible Style Language (XSL), a new standard whose long gestation left XML relegated to data interchange. Nonetheless, XSL will be released sometime in 1999 and soon thereafter we will actually be able to view XML documents. And these documents will reside on the Web, LANs, local drives, and CD-ROM. Regardless of publishing medium, you will be able to publish a document's content once and deliver various renditions by supplying different XSL files with the content.

76. Print Meets Web With Emerging Technologies (InfoWorld) Meanwhile, like any highstakes emerging technology, web publishing involves Meanwhile, ArborText will unveil Adept 7, an upgrade of its sgml system for http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?970926.wseyb.htm

77. JEP: CREATING WILEY INTERSCIENCE Once staff are trained in web and sgml skills, it is important that they are While the individual web site is the yardstick by which web publishing is http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/grenier.html

CREATING WILEY INTERSCIENCE: Moving from Ink Molecules to Computer Bits by GERRY GRENIER The World Wide Web has enabled a new way to communicate that is transforming our lives at a rapid pace. A vast field of information is now at the world's fingertips book lovers can order their Reflections on the Revolution Editor's Gloss: Bill Kasdorf Transforming Print Encyclopedias Mosby's GenRx Success Creating Wiley InterScience CIAO: A New Model SGML and PDF Content Management Systems Lieb: Access Code Front Page favorite titles from an electronic bookstore such as Amazon.Com, news hounds can personalize their daily newspaper, information scientists can read the latest in technology developments, and medical researchers in labs located hundreds of miles from the nearest library can access the latest innovations in medicine. The Web has increased the world's information expectations and has changed forever the infrastructure of information delivery in the science publishing community. This article will review the history of Wiley's online publishing activities, describe the reasoning behind the choice of presentation format of the current offering, and touch on the issues associated with building an infrastructure that will sustain a creative, innovative, and evolving Web-publishing service to the scientific community. Timeline The Journal of Image Guided Surgery (recently retitled Computer Aided Surgery ), in March 1995. It was one of the first peer-reviewed scientific journals that offered full HTML text online.

78. HDL Q And A sold only as components of expensive sgml publishing systems and were notwebaware. The first free universal sgml web browser, SoftQuad s Panorama, http://www.w3.org/Style/History/www.ora.com/davenport/HDL/hdl.q-and-a.html

Questions and Answers about the HDL Proposal This document is a companion piece to the proposal for a Hypertext Delivery Language (HDL) to be developed upon an existing standard, SDL. It poses and answers some of the more basic questions relating to HDL and its relationship to other delivery methods. What would be the relationship between HDL and authoring languages? Like SDL, the HDL contemplated by the proposal is not intended to be an authoring format but rather the target of a conversion process from some other format optimized for authoring or data retrieval. The most obvious source format for HDL would be HTML, presumably HTML 3.0, which is here assumed to be a refinement of the existing HTML 2.0 without the addition of typographical controls. A conversion script to produce HDL from HTML is obviously a prerequisite to this plan, but such a script would be relatively easy to develop. It may be wondered what advantages a conversion process would have over the implementation of format controls directly in HTML. There are several aspects to this question. First, it is necessary to distinguish between the need to control the typography of documents in order to produce a distinctive appearance and the need to adopt a completely different appearance for each document. The former is quite common; the latter is quite rare (except in advertising). Typically, individual users and organizations seek to develop a distinctive look for their documents and demand the controls necessary to achieve the visual effect required to distinguish their documents from those produced by others. Once having achieved such an effect, however, this distinctive look becomes associated with individual or corporate identity and is seldom changed. It is often necessary to develop a suite of styles for different subdocument types the different sections of a newspaper or magazine, for example but once developed, such styles change infrequently.

79. WWW4: Tutorial Abstracts they need prepare material for WWW publishing web architecture, HTML syntax, K. sgml Tools for web Developers. Keith M. Corbett, Harlequin, Inc. http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Tutorial_Abstracts.html

Tutorial abstracts Information on registration and schedule for tutorials is on the main Tutorial page . This page provides detailed abstracts for each tutorial. All tutorials are given on Monday, December 11. The abstract for each tutorial describes its content, its intended audience, the background of the presenter, and its relationship with other tutorials. Morning tutorials A Getting Started with HTML: Authoring for the Web Dennis Sheldrick, Hewlett-Packard Dan Keller , independent consultant This tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of the Web and a quick start to HTML authoring. Attendees will get all they need prepare material for WWW publishing: Web architecture, HTML syntax, hyperlinks, page structure, images, image maps, URL's, and conversion. The session also introduces tables, forms, and CGI scripts. Suitable for those with little or no experience writing HTML. The authors are experienced tutorial presenters. Sheldrick is currently a Computer Education Consultant at Hewlett Packard. He has taught X Windows courses at many conferences, and published articles on the Web and X. Keller teaches HTML authoring classes to corporate clients. This is the most fundamental tutorial of the day. Most other tutorials require mastery of this material. Afternoon tutorial

80. Four Myths About XML (Bosak) The key factor to understand about XML is that it belongs to the sgml layer, is busy defining this enabling language for XMLbased web publishing. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/sun-info/standards/xml/why/4myths.htm

Media-Independent Publishing: Four Myths about XML Jon Bosak Sun Microsystems This article first appeared in IEEE Computer (Vol. 31, No. 10, October 1998, pp. 120-122). Called "the emerging technology of the year" after it was endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XML burst onto the scene in February, 1998. It was called the successor to HTML and, according to some, the future lingua franca for the exchange of structured data. As XML emerged from the obscurity of its W3C beginnings, it was perhaps inevitable that this new data format would begin generating misconceptions as fast as it has attracted enthusiasts. In this column, I'd like to head off some myths about XML before they become permanent misunderstandings. MYTH 1: XML IS A CONSIPIRACY LED BY MICROSOFT XML is a conspiracy, but not Microsoft's. In fact, XML was produced by a group of markup language experts organized by Sun Microsystems to develop a form of the venerable ISO standard, SGML, for use on the Web. The amazing thing about XML is that all of these people and organizations set aside personal and corporate agendas to cooperate in the construction of a genuinely open standard, driven entirely by user needs. These needs include: Extensibility

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