Understanding The SGML Declaration

Table of Contents

• 1. What Is An SGML Declaration?
• 2. Character Sets in the SGML Declaration
• 2.1. Character Sets
• 2.2. Using Character Sets In The SGML Declaration
• 2.3. Public Identifiers
• 2.4. Identifying Character Sets
• 2.5. Escape Sequences and Designating Sequences
• 2.6. ISO 646 and ASCII
• 2.7. What Do Character Set Identifiers Mean?
• 3. Syntax Of An SGML Declaration
• 3.1. Parts of an SGML Declaration
• 3.2. The Document Character Set
• 3.3. The Capacity Set
• 3.4. The Concrete Syntax Scope
• 3.5. The Concrete Syntax - Using a Public Concrete Syntax
• 3.6. The Concrete Syntax - Defining a Variant Concrete Syntax
• 3.6.1. Shunned Characters
• 3.6.2. The Syntax-Reference Character Set
• 3.6.3. Function Characters
• 3.6.3.1 SEPCHAR
• 3.6.3.2 MSSCHAR
• 3.6.3.3 MSOCHAR and MSICHAR
• 3.6.3.4 FUNCHAR
• 3.6.4. Multicode Concrete Syntaxes
• 3.6.5. Naming Rules
• 3.6.6. General Delimiters
• 3.6.7. Short Reference Delimiters
• 3.6.8. Reserved Names
• 3.6.9. The Quantity Set
• 3.7. Feature Use
• 3.8. Application-Specific Information
• 4. Examples of SGML Declarations
• 4.1. Putting It All Together
• 4.2. Supporting non-ISO 646 (ASCII) Character Sets
• 4.3. Parsing RTF
• Annex A. A Template of the SGML Declaration
• Annex B. The System Declaration