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"William F. Hammond" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:36:02 -0500
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Sebastian Rahtz <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> strange. I use software based on standards every day of my life, and I
> don't own any of them. how is your copy of ASCII?

For the most part I think that it does not make sense for me to
rely on a standard that is "owned" because I then have the concern
that it could be changed in an unfair way.

It's probably reasonable to trust ISO.

If you want the SGML standard, a nicely annotated copy of it
is in Goldfarb's _SGML Handbook_ and it's probably impractical
to think about asking for the creation of a web-served version.

(I don't about revisions of the standard in regard to possible
revisions of the book.)

The book has a readable tutorial.  As for the rest it's like the
Unix manual.  Mostly, it's more than you want to know, but you may
want to have it.  Its price, as I recall, is roughly the same order
of magnitude as the ISO thing.  You can survive without it if you
go to "comp.text.sgml" and to Robin Cover's web site on SGML.

                                   -- Bill

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