*************************************************************** ****************** WELCOME TO SGML NEWSWIRE ******************* *************************************************************** * * * To subscribe, send mail to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * * * (Please pass along to interested colleagues) * * * *************************************************************** SEYBOLD REPORT OFFERS FULL ANALYSIS OF SGML =========================================== An article in a recent issue of the Patricia Seybold Group's Workgroup Computing Report provides a straight-forward, full-analysis of SGML. Topics include those listed below. The Myth of the Paperless Office Support for SGML Growing What is all the Excitement About? Why SGML? Implications for Multimedia [including a description of HyTime, an SGML extension for hypertext multimedia] How SGML Works A Breakdown of SGML Tools [including brief descriptions of available conversion, authoring, databasing, paper delivery and electronic delivery tools] Looking at SGML's History Room for Improvement [addresses such issues as interoperability, the intuitiveness of current tools, and the "implicit sociotechnical impact it has on the way in which users author and collaborate on documents"] Excerpts: "Ever since the dawn of the computer age, the bold promise of a paperless office, where electronic documents replace paper, has largely been swept aside as a pipe dream... One of the drawbacks to the adoption of electronic documents has been the lack of a standard for the structure of such documents to make the information contained in them useful across platforms and across applications.... SGML is emerging as a part of the technical solution that may help usher in a new era of electronic documents...." Workgroup Computing Report: Applying Technology to Business Processes, "Document Management: A Progress Report on SGML," Patricia Seybold Group, January 1994, Lee Bruno. Contact information: Patricia Seybold Group 148 State Street 7th Floor Boston, MA 02109 Tel 617-742-5200 ************************************************************** * SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER * * * * Linda Turner * * Corporate Communications * * Avalanche * * 947 Walnut Street * * Boulder, CO 80302 * * sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * linda@avalanche.com * * Vox: (303) 449-5032 * * Fax: (303) 449-3246 * **************************************************************