Microsoft KB Archive/125175

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SGML: Microsoft SGML Author Technical Spec Sheet

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Q125175

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft SGML Author for Word, version 1.0
 * Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c

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SUMMARY
SGML is an international standard that describes the relationship between a document's context and its structure in an open and vendor-neutral format. Information can be shared across computer platforms and applications. This delivers information solutions ranging from electronic publishing to document repositories.

SGML Author for Word enables users to create documents in Word for Windows 6.0 and save them as SGML. Author provides the means to identify SGML elements in the following ways:

SGML Category           SGML Author Capacity -           ---

Attributes              Attributes are handled using Word's Private Fields, which are designed to store information that does not appear in the document. This enables SGML Author users to insert Attributes into the text stream without having to view them unless they want to.

Entity References       SGML Author supports Entity References as long as                         they are defined correctly in the DTD (Document                         Type Definition) and the user enters the appropriate Parameter Entity in the document text stream.

ID/IDRef Pairs          SGML Author automatically converts Bookmarks to ID                         Attributes and Ref Fields to IDRefs.

OLE Objects & Pictures  OLE Objects and Pictures can be saved as *.CGM or                         *.WMF graphic files, or they can be saved out as                         binary files that Word can retrieve later.

Tables                  SGML Author supports a subset of the CALS table model based on Word's table features.

International           SGML Author supports international characters Characters              defined in the ISO character entity sets. All glyphs in the ANSI character set above 127, the Zapf Dingbats, WingDings, and Symbol fonts, and some glyphs that are part of the Reference Concrete Syntax are turned into character entities.

Equations               SGML Author converts to and from the ISO standard (ISO/IEL TR 9573-11:1992E) for representing equations as SGML. You can also choose to export equations as OLE Objects.

Mark-up Minimization    SGML Author supports SHORTTAG, OMITTAG, SHORTREF on import and exports them as fully normalized SGML. Datatag and rank are not supported by SGML Author.

Marked Sections         SGML Author imports marked sections based on                         whether they are marked as "Included" or                         "Ignored." SGML Author does not export marked sections because Word does not support conditional text.

Direct Formatting       All mark-up in Word documents must use either Paragraph styles, or for inner paragraph mark-up, Character styles. All direct formatting is                        ignored.

Multiple DTD's          SGML Author can be configured to work with any DTD using point-and-click tools.