Product Document Management with SGML And Relational Databases

Versions

The thesis was made with SGML using a variant of the Docbook DTD. Different versions were extracted from the SGML version. The versions available here are:

SGML

This is the original SGML format. Some of the images in the original are in CGM format. The SGML document has CSS and ViewPort stylesheets. DocZilla and Multidoc Pro are two example programs that can be used to view the document.

XML

The XML format is perhaps the one that is styled best, with CSS. The XML format uses the HTML namespace to display images with the IMG tag. Links are done with simple XLink. XML-capable browser, for example any Mozilla-based browser can be used to view it. Internet Explorer 5.0 or newer can also be used to view it. It is only barely usable with 5.0 because 5.0 has severe bugs with XML parsing, only limited CSS support, no XLink support, and the Table of Contents does not work.

HTML

Any HTML-capable web browser should be able to show the document in the HTML format. The markup is not valid HTML, however. It has a small CSS stylesheet which makes the document easier to read, but CSS capability is not necessary.

PDF

The PDF version preserves the layout closest to the original (which was done with FrameMaker+SGML). Please note that double sided printing may use slightly odd page numbering (like chapters beginning from an even page number). Adobe Acrobat is an example program that can be used to view this version.

You can also download the whole gzipped tar archive.