SGML, HTML, & other markup Tools

Hypertext Guides to DTD

Some of these guides are fairly detailed; others provide only bare-syntax info

  • HTML 2.0 Strict DTD Guide--Stanford version
  • HTML 3.0 (Earl Hood)
  • HTML DTD Non-strict, Non-stanford version (Earl Hood)
  • Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines (at CETH)
  • TEI Lite (reduced version of Text Encoding Iniiative DTD)
  • Sandia Labs HTML Reference Manual

    • Tutorials, etc

    See also the section on graphics below

  • HTML Basics
  • Forms Tutorial
  • Yale C/AIM style manual which teaches bogus HTML, but has some good ideas about document organization, graphics, etc.
  • If you are looking for a book on HTML, try Peter Flynn's The WorldWideWeb Handbook

    • Graphics

  • Bandwidth Conservation Society
    Excellent tutorials on ways to reduce size/transmission time of images.
  • Creating Graphics for the Web
  • Not Just Decoration: quality graphics for the Web
  • Antialiasing, Transparency, and the Web
  • Icons and graphic elements--Contact sheets
  • How EXPO was created (a net classic)
  • Tutorials on Use of Images for Web

    • Info about character sets and related matters

  • Martin Ramsch's ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 Table
  • Walter Ian Kaye's The HTML Document Character Set
  • Character Entities for HTML
  • Numeric Character references for HTML

    • Authority lists

    The following are offered as-is, with no official blessing from SUL/AIR, and with no guarantee that they are the latest version.

  • USMARC Country codes
  • USMARC Language codes
  • ISO Codes for the representation of names of countries.Excerpted from Third edition; ISO 3166: 1988 Aug 15; 53 p.
  • ISO Codes for the representation of names of languages Excerpted from ISO 639:1988
  • US Postal Service Abbreviations for the names of States
  • US Postal Service Other abbreviations

    • Misc

  • More validation services
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