What type of document?

Abstract

• How to describe the different types of documents

• Understanding Document Type Definitions

• What DTDs are available in public

• XML: the Extensible Markup Language

• Identifying the DTD

• Writing and modifying DTDs

• An update on the status of SGML

Up early and...to the Privy Seale and got my bill perfected there, and at the Signet: and then...to Mr Beale to get my patent engrossed,...but I could find none that could write the [Chancery] hand...To Mr Spong, whom I found in his night-gown writing of my patent...Mr Kipps got me the Chancellor’s recepi to my bill; and so carried it to Mr Beale for a dockett; but he was very angry, and unwilling to do it, because he said it was ill-writ (because I had got it writ by another hand, and not by him); but by much importunity I got [him to] make an end of my patent; and in the mean time Mr Beale to be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give him two pieces, after which it was strange how civil...he was to me.

Samuel Pepys, Diary, 12–13 July 1660