DD: Handbook goals

Subject: DD: Handbook goals
From: Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:54:33 -0400 (EDT)
The remainder of this message is a first try at the high level
description of "The DSSSL Handbook".  More details on the outline will
be forthcoming, but that shouldn't stop anyone from contributing ideas
about the outline or commenting on this description.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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Tony Graham, Consultant
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                         Phone: 301-231-6931
6010 Executive Blvd., Suite 608                     Fax:   301-231-6935
Rockville, MD USA 20852                 email: tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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THE DSSSL HANDBOOK

The DSSSL Handbook is an introductory reference book targeted to new
users of DSSSL.  It assumes:

 - No prior knowledge of DSSSL

 - No prior knowledge of Scheme

 - A working knowledge of SGML

 - Access to the DSSSL standard

The handbook contains both explanatory and reference information, and
it is not necessary to read the entire book from cover to cover.  A
new user may read the all of the introductory tutorial material, but
others may only jump from chapter to chapter as they need or just dip
into the book occasionally.

The handbook covers the concepts of DSSSL, details of DSSSL's style,
expression, query and transformation languages, and modelling common
structures using DSSSL, as well as the practicalities of writing a
stylesheet and running a DSSSL engine for the first time.  It does
not, however, solely concentrate on a particular DSSSL engine, and
information on an engine's extension to DSSSL are grouped in a single
chapter.  Similarly, information on DSSSL extensions required for
xml-style are grouped within their own section.

The handbook is indexed and extensively cross-referenced, plus it
makes frequent reference to sections within the DSSSL standard.

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