************** WELCOME TO SGML NEWSWIRE *************** * * * To subscribe, send mail to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com. * * * * To receive a current table of contents, * * and instructions for ordering back issues. * * specify "send toc" in the message body. * * * * (Please pass along to interested colleagues) * * * ******************************************************* SGML FOR THE WEB, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT, & MORE SGML FOR THE WEB ===================== SoftQuad Inc. has committed to making SGML available for publishing on the Web. In an announcement entitled, "SoftQuad, NCSA Offer SGML for Web," published by Individual, Inc. on May 25, SoftQuad announced the following: "SoftQuad's new Panorama software is an SGML viewer for the World Wide Web. It will be distributed free along with Mosaic, the Web browser developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Panorama will also be packaged with Enhanced Mosaic, a commercial version of the browser that Spyglass, Inc., of Napierville, Illinois, sells. Meanwhile, SoftQuad will also offer Panorama Pro a commercial version of the software that includes the ability to create SGML documents for the Web." Learn more about the freeware from SoftQuad on the WWW at http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/panorama/panorama.html Contact information: SoftQuad, 416-239-4801 or http://www.sq.com. ***** DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT ___________________ An article written by Doug van Kirk and published in Info World on May 22, 1995 discussed the document management industry and its slow-but-sure adoption of SGML. " ...Many industry experts believe the business of managing documents is about to explode, an opinion shared by such companies as Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Oracle Corp." Frank Gilbane, editorial director of the Gilbane Report and a director of CAP Ventures, a consultancy that tracks the industry, added the following comments: "The next generation of document management software not only embraces interoperability but also manages and acts on the components of a document. This new breed moves the emphasis from entire documents to their discrete information components." "How appealing are these systems? CAP Ventures recently surveyed 300 large organizations using compound document management systems and found that they pay on average $513,000 for software alone on a system that serves close to 230 users." Systems that are native SGML have been touted as providing greater interoperability, but the problems arise in their application. "Although SGML-tagged pages can be easily moved across compatible document management systems, they might not mean much once they get there because each user may define the document types differently... Laura Walker, marketing manager for XSoft says it won't make sense to tag the majority of existing documents, and the lack of SGML support from desktop applications could slow SGML's acceptance." ***** MORE SGML DOCUMENT VIEWING __________________________ Another announcement was recently released over the Business Wire via Fulfillment by Individual, Inc. on May 31, 1995. An excerpt follows. "Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. (EBT)...today announced that it is developing a "DynaWeb applet" for use with Sun Microsystem's Hot Java World Wide Web Browser. EBT's Hot Java DynaWeb applet will enable users of Sun's Web browser to view, search, and navigate millions of pages of SGML-based electonic books. An alpha version of Sun's Hot Java and a prototype of EBT's DynaWeb applet, both to be made freely available from EBT's FTP site (ftp.ebt.com), were demonstrated last week at SUNWORLD '95 in San Francisco. EBT's Hot Java DynaWeb applet will take full advantage of DynaText and SGML. The DynaWeb applet brings enhanced searchig, navigation, support for SGML and various HTML...file formats, tables, and equations to Web publishing". For more information see the EBT Web site at http://www.ebt.com ***** ******************************************************* * SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER * * * * Kirsten Russell * * Avalanche/Interleaf * * 4999 Pearl East Circle * * Suite 100 * * Boulder, CO 80301 * * sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * kirsten@avalanche.com * * Vox: (303) 449-5032 * * Fax: (303) 449-3246 * *******************************************************