Open AccessThinking Outside Conventional Aerospace and Defense Technical Publications Using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
Author(s) -
S. Santhosh Baboo,
Nikhil Lobo
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the open aerospace engineering journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1874-1460
DOI - 10.2174/1874146000902010019
Subject(s) - disk formatting , computer science , documentation , sgml , markup language , consistency (knowledge bases) , document type definition , style sheet , html , information retrieval , world wide web , constant (computer programming) , software , reusability , software engineering , document structure description , programming language , xml , web page , operating system , artificial intelligence
In Aerospace and Defense, documentation is of a very large size, highly structured and needs constantupdating. Managing this documentation has been a constant challenge to this industry. Moreover accuracy of data is acritical aspect of constant worry to publication managers. At present, documentation is being created using traditional publishing software resulting in wastage of time and effort.Time is spent in formatting documents instead of creation of content. Each time a document is created or updatedformatting has to be applied manually. Preparing documents for print or web requires complete reformatting. Content isnot structured across similar types of publications resulting in no consistency. Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) allows a document to be broken up into modules allowing reusability.SGML enforces content to be developed in a structured manner maintaining consistency across publications. Thisstructured approach is achieved using a Document Type Definition (DTD). Separation of content from formatting isachieved using Format Output Specification Instance (FOSI).