Abstract
This document illustrates a simple SGML document type.
It should be easy to write processors that can handle this document.
This is an example of a complete SGML document. In this context complete means that the text file containing the document instance also defines the document type definition for the instance.
More common practice is for the document type definition to reside
in a separate text file from the document instance. The file containing
the document type definition is referenced through the document
type declaration, which is the DOCTYPE container.
In translating an SGML document many steps are obvious.
In particular, for translation from one document type to another, often many things can be translated element-wise.
Sometimes, however, it is necessary to descend recursively into an element.
For the task of translating this document type to HTML the link element provides an example where element-wise translation will not work.