2 <!DOCTYPE gcapaper SYSTEM
"gcapap-X.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY footprint SYSTEM
"footprint.tif" NDATA tiff
>
4 <!ENTITY footprint SYSTEM
"footprint.eps" NDATA eps
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5 <!ENTITY shoes SYSTEM
"shoes.tif" NDATA tiff
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6 <!ENTITY super1
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9 <gcapaper><front><title>Using SGML to make footprints in the sand
10 </title><keyword>footprints
</keyword><keyword>sand
</keyword>
11 <author><fname>Jane
</fname><surname>Doe
</surname>
12 <jobtitle>Empress
</jobtitle>
13 <address><affil>Universe Corporation
</affil>
14 <aline>1 Main Street
</aline>
15 <city>Perfect City
</city>
16 <province>Dorado
</province>
17 <cntry>Neutral
</cntry><postcode>999999</postcode>
18 <phone>+
55 555 555 5550</phone>
19 <fax>+
55 555 555 5555</fax>
20 <email>jane@universe.com
</email>
21 <web>www.universe.com
</web>
23 <bio><para>Jane Doe is the Empress of the Universe
<bibref refloc=
"jd000"/>, a position to which she has always aspired.
</para></bio>
25 <author><fname>Fred
</fname><surname>Bloggs
</surname>
26 <jobtitle>Designer
</jobtitle>
27 <address><affil>Fred (The Shoe) Bloggs Ltd
</affil>
28 <aline>1 Shoe Lane
</aline>
29 <city>Perfect City
</city>
30 <province>Dorado
</province>
31 <cntry>Neutral
</cntry><postcode>999999</postcode>
32 <phone>+
55 555 555 1122</phone>
33 <fax>+
55 555 555 1133</fax>
34 <email>fred@shoebloggs.com
</email>
35 <web>www.shoebloggs.com
</web></address>
36 <bio><para>Fred has always wanted to create the perfect shoe for making footprints in the sand. Now with SGML and XML, he has been able to document his design.
</para></bio>
39 <para><keyword>ease
</keyword><keyword>documentation
</keyword>It's not easy being an Empress of the Universe (
<a href=
"http://www.universe.com"/>), but with the right pair of shoes and the right documentation on how to make footprints in the sand of life, it's easier than it was. Since the introduction of
<acronym.grp
><acronym>SGML
</acronym><expansion>Standard Generalized Markup Language
</expansion></acronym.grp
> and
<acronym.grp
><acronym>XML
</acronym><expansion>Extensible Markup Language
</expansion></acronym.grp
> it is now possible to identify and manage the key bits of information on this process.
</para>
42 <body><section id=
"jd001"><title>Introduction
</title>
43 <para><keyword>documentation
</keyword>Since its inception, the Universe has always had sand, now it has an Empress, a good shoe design, and
<acronym>SGML
</acronym> /
<acronym>XML
</acronym> documentation. The time is now ripe for making
<highlight style=
"ital">footprints
</highlight> in the sand.
</para></section>
44 <section id=
"jd002"><title>Footprints - truly a push technology
</title><keyword>push
</keyword>
45 <para>One could safely say that making footprints is a push technology. This is even more true when the footprint maker is the Empress of the Universe.
</para>
46 <subsec1 id=
"jd003"><title>The sands of time
</title><keyword>time
</keyword>
47 <para>The
1<super>st
</super> think to remember about the Universe is the time/space continuum to which it conforms. This then confuses the sands of time to be something more like the sands of time/space continuum because if you wait on those sands long enough they may be somewhere else - not necessarily because of the time/space continuum but because the winds will
<highlight style=
"ital">push
</highlight> them down the beach.
</para></subsec1>
48 <subsec1 id=
"jd004"><title>Identifying the footprints
</title>
49 <para>In order to truly understand who has walked on the sands and left the footprints, it is important to identify the
<keyword>characteristics
</keyword>characteristics of the footprint. In the graphic
<xref refloc=
"jd005" type=
"title"/>, we can see the footprints are large, well shaped, and evenly distributed from front to back and side to side.
</para>
50 <figure id=
"jd005"><title>Footprint in Sand
</title><caption><para>Note the evenly distributed shape and indention
</para></caption><graphic figname=
"footprint"/></figure>
51 <para>This footprint begs the question, 'What kind of remarkable
<keyword>shoe
</keyword>shoe could make such a wonderful footprint?'
</para>
54 <thead><row><entry>Shoe Type
</entry><entry>Remarkability Rating
</entry></row></thead>
55 <tbody><row><entry>Acme Shoe
</entry><entry>Unremarkable
</entry></row>
56 <row><entry>Budget Shoe
</entry><entry>Not worth remarking on
</entry></row>
57 <row><entry>Super Duper Shoe
</entry><entry>Absolutely Remarkable
</entry></row></tbody>
58 </tgroup></table></subsec1>
59 <subsec1 id=
"jd006"><title>The Shoe What Made the Footprint
</title>
60 <para>The remarkable footprint is made by a combination of a terrific shoe worn on a fantastic foot propelled by a one-of-a-kind Empress. As can be seen in Figure
<xref refloc=
"jd007" type=
"number"/>, the shoe is worthy of an Empress.
</para>
61 <figure id=
"jd007"><title>The Terrific Shoe
</title><graphic figname=
"shoes"/></figure>
62 <para>The design goals of the shoe were:
63 <randlist style =
"bulleted">
64 <li><para>to minimize time-consuming manual tasks such as shoelace tying;
</para></li>
65 <li><para>to allow different decorations to be placed on the toes; and
</para></li>
66 <li><para>to enforce a good arch.
</para></li></randlist></para></subsec1></section>
67 <section id=
"jd008"><title>Documenting the Shoe
</title>
68 <para>Documenting the shoe was the best part for Fred Bloggs. His superior design could be captured for all time in a neutrally-encoded, content-specific manner. An excerpt from his DTD gives an insight into the type of information he captured in his documentation.
</para>
69 <code.block
><!DOCTYPE shoedoc [
70 <!ELEMENT shoedoc - - (design, mfg, care, recycle)
>
71 <!ATTLIST shoedoc designer CDATA #REQUIRED
73 <!ELEMENT design - - (specs, desc)
>
76 <para>An excerpt from the documentation also gives us insights.
</para>
77 <code.block
><![CDATA[
<design>
78 <specs sizerange=
"4-12" widthrange=
"aa-d" color=
"navy black white red taupe">
79 <para>The arch shall be high. The toe shall be narrow, but not pinch. The heel shall not come off in grates. Sand shall not get in.
</para></specs>]]
>
83 <para>The authors wish to express our thanks to the Universe for being there and to gravity for holding the sand down long enough to see the footprints.
</para></acknowl>
85 <bibitem id=
"jd000"><bib>Barrett
00</bib><pub>Barrett, B., Being Empress Made Easy, Galaxy Division of Universal Publishers.
0000</pub></bibitem></bibliog></rear></gcapaper>