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The 3rd Thursday of the month approaches and it is time for
another meeting of the New South Wales Chapter of SAGE. The meeting
details are:

Time:           6:30pm
Date:           21st of November, 1996
Place:          The Occidental Hotel (Near Wynyard Station)
                43 York St, Sydney

Hint:  Buy your drink downstairs before you come up.

We need to discuss meeting times, and the Christmas meeting.

Our talk this month is by Bruce Howarth, an abstract of his talk
follows:

SGML -- TAKING OVER THE WORLD

Bruce Howarth, School of Computing Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney.

SGML - Standardised General Markup Language - has been around
for a long time.  Until recently, however, it has had a rather
limited range of applications, which meant that the bulk of
computing professionals did not have to know much about it.

Recently, however, this situation has begun to change.  HTML (an
outgrowth of SGML) has become the de facto standard for WWW, and
SGML-aware browsers are becoming available.  And the SGML
community has begun providing tools that link SGML to more
traditional databases.

This talk will briefly review SGML's history, describe how it
works and describe some of the current trends in applications of
SGML, and show how these are coming to involve many other
areas of computing, and how they are spreading into ever wider
areas of applications.

I will attempt to justify my belief that understanding of
SGML and its capabilities is becoming important for all computer
people.

Some of us will venture out for dinner afterwards, everyone welcome.

Crackers....


Ian Crakanthorp                              e-mail: crackers@atom.ansto.gov.au
ANSTO                                        "They call me Crackers"
Australian Nuclear Science                   phone : +61 2 717 3365
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Ian Crakanthorp                              e-mail: crackers@atom.ansto.gov.au
ANSTO                                        "They call me Crackers"
Australian Nuclear Science                   phone : +61 2 717 3365
& Technology Organisation		     Fax   : +61 2 717 9273