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Example document for <acro>SGML</acro> processing
Abstract
This document illustrates a simple SGML document type.
It should be easy to write processors that can handle this document.
This document as an <acro>SGML</acro> instance
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.
Processing generalities
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.
An example where recursive descent is needed
For the task of translating this document type to HTML
the link element provides an example where element-wise
translation will not work.