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Screenplay DTD

An SGML DTD for describing movies. This is in a very early stage of development, so if you aren't interested in messing around with DTDs, you'd best look for something more mature. Ditto (and ditto again!) if this is all Greek to you.

Etest DTD [ New! ]

A DTD for creating academic exams and quizzes, in SGML and XML versions. Like the above, this DTD is in its infancy. Unlike the above, it has been used for a real-world project and comes with documentation (though it is very minimal documentation at present).

SGML
Acronym for Standard Generalized Markup Language. Although people often refer to "SGML documents" or "SGML markup," technically speaking SGML per se is not used in end-user documents; rather it is used to create Document Type Definitions (DTDs), each of which defines a markup language used for a particular type of document.

XML
... stands for eXtensible Markup Language. It is a greatly simplified, but still very powerful and flexible version of SGML which will help realize the full potential of the World Wide Web.

For way more SGML/XML info than you can even imagine, visit The SGML/XML Home Page.

The XML Specification and other official info about XML can be found at The World Wide Web Consortium

... or try Peter Flynn's XML FAQ for a more user-friendly introduction to all this madness.

Matt Gushee

Last modified: Thu Dec 16 02:31:00 JST 1999