7 A brief bibliography

This bibliography lists some useful further reading for general information about SGML and markup languages. A full and very detailed SGML bibliography edited by Robin Cover and David T. Barnard is also available as TEI document MLW14. A much expanded and updated version of the latter is also available on the World Wide Web from http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html".

Bryan, Martin SGML: an Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language Addison-Wesley1988Detailed text book giving full treatment of the standard, but primarily from the publishing perspective.
Coombs, James H., et al. Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing Communications of the ACM November 1987 Vol 30 no 11 pp 933-47 Classic polemic in favour of descriptive over procedural markup presented from the scholarly perspective.
De Rose, Steven J., et al. What is text, really? Journal of Computing in Higher Education Winter 1990 Vol 1 no 2
Goldfarb, Charles The SGML Handbook Oxford University Press1991 Authoritative and exhaustive presentation of all aspects of ISO 8879, including annotated and cross referenced full text of the standard itself.
International Organization for Standardization ISO 8879: Information processing - Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) ISO1986Annexes A and B to the Standard provide a formal but readable summary of its most important features.
International Organisation for Standardisation ISO/TR 9573: Information processing - SGML support facilities - Techniques for using SGML ISO1988 Tutorial discussion of main features of the standard with some interesting examples.
van Herwijnen, Eric Practical SGML (second edition) DordrechtKluwer1994 Second, much improved, edition of an excellent introductory textbook with emphasis on how SGML is currently being used.

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