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ISO/IEC 15445:2000, also known as ISO-HTML, provides an International Standard for the
core of the HyperText Markup Language. Unless you are an SGML junkie and can
decipher such incomprehensible prose as The NAME attribute value
specification shall be processed as if the declared value were NAME
, then
I strongly recommend you read the User's Guide, which
will tell you everything that you can find in ISO-HTML, and explain what it
means.
I struggled with the documentation for ML-Lex and ML-Yacc included in
the SML/NJ distribution, and ended up merging that
documentation into my own notes to produce a "User's Guide to ML-Lex and
ML-Yacc". This contains a fully worked example, an index, and is GPLed.
- A PDF booklet, 69 pages plus index, 589
Kbytes. Typeset for A4 paper, but should be readable if printed on US letter.
- A PostScript booklet, 69 pages plus index,
823 Kbytes. Typeset for A4 paper, but should be readable if printed on US
letter.
For the brave, a PostScript booklet, 69
pages plus index, 853 Kbytes. Typeset for A4 paper in signatures of 3 sheets
with 12 pages per signature. This PostScript is to be printed recto-verso on
ISO A4 paper. You then have to peel off the signatures, 3 sheets (12 pages)
at a time, and fold the three sheets together with the consecutive page
numbers on the inside of the fold. Finally you have to bind the signatures
together to get an ISO A5 sized book. Hint: Practice on a few pages before
sending the whole file to the printer; it will save you a lot of ink.
- The source code tar ball including worked
examples, 1.4 Mbytes.
The latest version shows how to use "8-bit" ML-Lex with Unicode, and
includes a working example which parses a UTF-32 encoded file. The technique
may also be used with UTF-8, UTF-16 and other encodings.
If you find errors or omissions in the Guide, or find subjects that need a
more thorough discussion, send a note to < guide at rogerprice dot org >
and I will try to fix the problem.
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I acted, with Vincent Oria, as Electronic Proceedings editor for the
ACM Multimedia 2001 conference. We attempted, as in the years 2000
and 1999, to produce proceedings which would be readable for 25 years.
To do this, we decided that all the pages had to conform to a DTD and
preferably to a strict DTD which separates content from style.
Experience shows that this was an ambitious objective: the quality of
the HTML submitted by the authors was very variable. Some of it,
often produced by hand, was either perfect, or a good approximation,
needing little further work by the editors. However far too much was,
like many of the pages on the World Wide Web, of very low quality indeed, often produced by
very broken tools such as Word. It was surprising to find multimedia
specialists who have little idea of the correct markup of a simple
text and image document.
All the papers we published in the electronic proceedings conform to
either the W3C's HTML 4 Strict DTD or the
ultra strict ISO-HTML. The style common to all
the papers is provided by a single CSS style sheet. The validation
was done using James Clark's remarkable SP.
Here are the 2001 electronic proceedings,
and the instructions to
authors
I also acted as Electronic Proceedings editor for the ACM Multimedia
1999 and 2000 conferences. Here are the 2000
electronic proceedings, and the 1999
electronic proceedings.
If you are curious, here are the electronic proceedings for ACM MM'98 and ACM
MM'97 prepared by my predecessors.
Small hotels are being suffocated by the mass marketing activity of
on-line e-distributors, (Online Travel Booking Agencies). The
commission rates, 15-25 %, of these parasitic intermediaries directly
affect the rates you are charged, and reduces our investment in your
comfort and the service we offer you. Please book directly with your
hotel, to protect the quality and existence of the small independent
hotel, and the quality of service offered.
Privilege direct booking to protect the quality of the
independent hotel business.
Dear guests, By booking directly with your favorite hotel, by phone
or through its official website, you will benefit by paying the same rate
(and sometimes less!) plus…
- fairer prices: by reserving directly with your preferred hotel,
by telephone or its official website, you will pay the same price
(and sometimes less!) and you do not contribute to others’ commissions
(between 15 and 25%).
- better availablity: by contacting the hotelier directly you will know
his availability in “real time” and not what was or may have been
available on a distant website.
- more freedom: by calling directly you can talk with him, determine
your needs with him, discuss the reservation conditions, choose your
room and associated services and inform him of your arrival time so we
are better prepared to welcome those particularly early or late
arrivals.
- better welcome: you can immediately empathize with your hotelier
(normally in several languages), he is the best person to help you
prepare your stay and your visits in and around his hotel.
- independent business friendly: by helping real tourism, you help
preserve small businesses, their creativity, individuality and
familiarity; their place in helping tourism in a small town and their
independence.
See this same message in
french,
german and
italian.
Other matters of importance
Une belle villa dans le forêt de Bagnols
Un petit hotel du type "bed and breakfast" à Vence
Le Restaurant Le Petit Grillon
à St Jeannet
Proverb
Les chiens aboient, la caravane passe.
(Dogs bark, but the caravan rolls on.)
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