Why chose SGML for Automated Multimedia Publications?
, showed how EuroStat was using Microsoft’s SGML Author to allow the European Commission to generate tables of statistical data for publication in formattable electronic form on the web using HTML and in printable format using PDF and other page composition formats. Filters have been developed to convert Word and other word processing formats to SGML. SGML document type definitions have been developed to allow data stored in EC statistical databases to be integrated with text in documents produced on word processors. Once the data has been converted and stored in SGML format it is relatively easy to write filters to convert it to HTML, PDF or other output formats.
