From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 25 15:46:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D1A14CED for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:46:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA70677; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:45:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:45:17 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Wayne M Barnes Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: .sgml In-Reply-To: <199903251714.RAA34177@klentaq1.emergingtech.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Say, what's a .sgml file, and what software reads them? ISO 8879:1986: Standard Generalized Markup Language. SGML is used to define markup languages. SGML also defines parsing rules such that a conforming parser can parse any past, present or future markup language defined with SGML. HTML is a markup language defined using SGML. The definition is known as a Document Type Definition, or DTD. The files you are looking at use a different DTD, in this case Linuxdoc. The textproc/sgmlformat port will convert these to HTML and to postscript or text via groff. XML is a simplified version of SGML. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message