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Declarations and Markup Languages

RDF.DTD

The newly published W3C Resource Description Framework
is not specified in a convenient way.
Here are ISO standard XML markup declarations.
There is also a version in text/plain
(1999-02-25)

QAML.DTD

The new XML version of the Question and Answer Markup Language DTD for FAQs.
(QAML 2.1 has been written in conjunction with people from FAQ.org)
This version supports language, stylesheets, ratings and linking better.
There is also a version in text/plain.
A QAML FAQ is now available, in XML.

SGML Declaration for Big5

If you want to use Big5 XML documents with SGML systems,
you will need a special SGML declaration. SGML was not designed
to cope with multiple-byte character encodings, so the SGML declaration
has to be hacked to make it work. (1999-02-05)
[XML] [SGML loose] [SGML tight]

lineDataWrap: An Element Set for Line-Delimited Records

This note defines elements you can use to incorporate line-delimited records
and fixed-column data into XML documents. The DTD is also available.
There is also a version in text/plain

(TEI) Lite and Loose DTD

This DTD can be used to distribute TEI Lite documents over the World Wide Web: it is the TEI Lite DTD, loosened according to the requirements of XML. TEI is the Text Encoding Initiative; you can make TEI DTDs to mark up all sorts of literature and reference material. Please note that this DTD may change over the next few months, in slight ways. (1999-02-10)
(TEI) Lite and Loose is also available using DDML, see next entry.
There is also a version in text/plain

XML-ized Public Entity Sets

The basic ISO and SPREAD-2 public entity sets
for special characters.

Dave Ragget's Tidy (HTML->XHTML+CSS converter) with extensions Chinese Extensions for Big5 and UTF-8 (Also, ShiftJIS) (1999-05-17)

HTML FAQ to QAML Converter

html2qaml.xom is an OmniMark script
to help conversions from HTML to QAML. It does not do everything. (1999-03-24)

XML Markup Declaration to DDML Converter

DDML (Document Description Markup Language) is for DTDs declared using elements
rather than XML markup declarations. There are OmniMark scripts to convert XML markup declarations into DDML:
there are two scripts: xml2ddml.xom and xml2ddml2.xom. Also, there are examples of DDML: the XBEL DTD,
our version of the DDML DTD, our (TEI) Lite and Loose DTD, and MathML, all in DDML.

Exclusion Validator for XHTML

The Exclusion Validator for XHTML finds certain errors that an XML validatory cannot. See note below for details. Note: based on previous draft of XSL. (1999-02-05)
Example: Exclusion Validator for XHTML (1999-02-26)

C Header for DOM

This is a C header for an interface class
for the W3C's Document Object Model API. (1999-05-31)
(Note: This is not ASCC source code.)

XXX: eXperimental Xml leXer

This is a snapshot of an experimental general-purpose lexical analyser (scanner) which can be configured for XML and a wide range of different syntaxes. There is also an explanatory article about how XXX relates to validation. (1999-05-31)

HTML FAQ to QAML Converter

html2qaml.xom is an OmniMark script
to help conversions from HTML to QAML. It does not do everything. (1999-03-24)

QAML Phrase Index Generator

These (UNIX shell and Omnimark) tools exract all phrases from FAQs
and create a permuted, sorted index file in HTML:
makeindex.sh, getphrase.xom, and mkhtml.xom (1999-04-07)

This is temporarily available, in XML in UTF-8. The Academia Sinica full text database
has several hundred meg more. The document is some ancient Chinese poems or lyrics (about 33K).
It uses our new (TEI) Lite and Loose DTD. (1999-02-10)
An alternate version formatted using a CSS stylesheet is also available. (1999-02-15)
Please note that this document is still being tested.

Example of Parallel HTML, HTML-in-XML, and XML

This is the overview of a seminar series at Academia Sinica.
You can use it to compare the XML and CSS implementations of various browsers.
You can see the same document marked up as HTML, HTML-in-XML with namespaces, and XML.
The HTML documents use one Cascading Style Sheet, the XML document uses another.
As a further example, you can see the same document with VML graphic objects.
Even though the documents may look the same (if your browser accepts them),
if you view source, you can see they are all marked up very differently. (1999-02-11)

Example of QAML DTD

The QAML FAQ (en), Chinese XML Now FAQ (en, zh), and the Chinese Metadata FAQ (en)
with a simple Cascading Style Sheet. (1999-04-06)

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Tutorials

XML: the eXtensible Markup Language

An introduction to XML

Seminar Notes (Note: This material is copyright. You have permission to download and read it for private, reference, archive and educational purposes. If you intend to use it in any commercial setting, please contact us.)

A Happy Doggy goes to the Box Factory (HTML) XML and Databases 14 pages: suitable for 1 hour seminar Introduction to XML DTDs (PDF) Document Type Definitions using XML's markup declarations (4.8 Mbyte) 35 pages: suitable for 2 hour seminar (Note: typing error in example) XML and Java: 1. Welcome to Tree World (PDF) (2.1 Mbyte) 2. How Close are We to Tree World? (PDF) (2.2 Mbyte) 3. XML and Java APIs (PDF) (2.0 Mbyte) 45 pages: suitable for 2 hour seminar Introduction to IETMs (PDF) Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (9.5 Mbyte) 67 pages: suitable for 4 hour seminar. (Note: because of the large size, you may have to save this to disk by right-clicking with your mouse, and then open it in Acrobat Reader.)

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Technology Notes

Using XSL as a Validation Language

This note shows how you can use XSL (eXensible Stylesheet Language)
to validate document structures. (1999-02-05)
Example: Exclusion Validator for XHTML (1999-02-26)
Francis Norton has published an excellent note persuing ideas in this paper,
it shows how to generate a validator from input in a schema language. (1999-05-20)

Validate This! Content Models on Different Targets

This note suggests that content models (regular expressions on name tokens) are a powerful technique which can be used to explain, constrain and validate many things other than element's contents. This paper is a continuation of the previous paper, and also may serve as an backgrounder to people looking at DOM, XML Schemas, the XML Information set, XSL and XLink. (1999-05-31)

XXX Notation Processors

This note continues from the previous note. If a generic regular expression processr can perform several checks usually associated with well-formedness checking, does this allow us to make a simpler front-end for reading XML? Can we make this tokenizer fit in with the ideas proposed in XML Notation Schemas. (1999-05-31)

Retrospective on ERCS: Extended Reference Concrete Syntax

This retrospective note looks at ERCS after 5 years, its influence on HTML, SGML and XML. What has succeeded, what has failed? This article is of historic and technical interest for the background to WWW internationalization.(1999-05-30)

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Other...

"The Chinese Numberplate" Logos

Logos to show which Chinese character sets software accepts or generates.

Software for Processing Chinese XML

Quick and unreliable guide to software supporting XML

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