For Builders of SGML DTDs Who Must Constrain Data In Special Ways

Abstract

As an organization’s document requirements grow, new areas become relevant to the SGML designer. In a small publishing operation information can be managed with traditional methods, and there is not so great a problem maintaining consistency across documents. But as the enterprise grows these problems can become very large. The SGML designer in such situation must be careful to insure that information from many differs authors and sources can be integrated smoothly, or the cost of bringing diverse formats, styles, and layouts together to make new documents, will soon far exceed the cost of creating all that information in the first place.