Standard Generalised Markup Language

Standard Generalized Markup Language better known by its initials, SGML is a markup language that is a development of Generalised Markup Language, it is the predecessor of HTML and XML.

Tools

• Bellcore SuperBook System
• Exoterica
  • OmniMark
  • SGML Kernel
• IBM
  • SGML TextWrite OS/2 Edition
  • SGML TextWrite Tools OS/2 Edition
  • TextTagger Workstation Edition
  • ProcessMaster CALS OS/2 Workstation Driver Feature
• TetraSys
  • EasyTag
  • HyperTag

• sgmls
• Yorktown SGML Parser (YASP)

Text Editors

• Datalogics WriterStation

OS/2 text editors

• Frame Technology: WriterStation/PM

Java text editors

• jEdit - Java based editor - SGML syntax highlighting built in

Publications

• Martin Bryan: SGML: An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language - Addison-Wesley 1988, ISBN 0-201-17535-5
• Charles F. Goldfarb: The SGML Handbook - Oxford University Press 1990, ISBN 0-19-853737-1

Standards

• ISO 8879:1986