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Universe Corporation 1 Main Street Perfect City Dorado Neutral999999 +55 555 555 5550 +55 555 555 5555 jane@universe.com www.universe.com

Jane Doe is the Empress of the Universe , a position to which she has always aspired. FredBloggs Designer

Fred (The Shoe) Bloggs Ltd 1 Shoe Lane Perfect City Dorado Neutral999999 +55 555 555 1122 +55 555 555 1133 fred@shoebloggs.com www.shoebloggs.com

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. easedocumentationIt's not easy being an Empress of the Universe (), 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 SGMLStandard Generalized Markup Language and XMLExtensible Markup Language it is now possible to identify and manage the key bits of information on this process.

documentationSince its inception, the Universe has always had sand, now it has an Empress, a good shoe design, and SGML / XML documentation. The time is now ripe for making footprints in the sand.

push 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. time The 1st 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 push them down the beach. In order to truly understand who has walked on the sands and left the footprints, it is important to identify the characteristicscharacteristics of the footprint. In the graphic , we can see the footprints are large, well shaped, and evenly distributed from front to back and side to side.

Note the evenly distributed shape and indention

This footprint begs the question, 'What kind of remarkable shoeshoe could make such a wonderful footprint?' Shoe TypeRemarkability RatingAcme ShoeUnremarkableBudget ShoeNot worth remarking onSuper Duper ShoeAbsolutely Remarkable 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 , the shoe is worthy of an Empress.

The design goals of the shoe were:

to minimize time-consuming manual tasks such as shoelace tying;

to allow different decorations to be placed on the toes; and

to enforce a good arch.

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. <!DOCTYPE shoedoc [ <!ELEMENT shoedoc - - (design, mfg, care, recycle) > <!ATTLIST shoedoc designer CDATA #REQUIRED date CDATA #REQUIRED> <!ELEMENT design - - (specs, desc) > etc. An excerpt from the documentation also gives us insights. 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.]]>

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. Barrett 00Barrett, B., Being Empress Made Easy, Galaxy Division of Universal Publishers. 0000