On the interchangeability of SGML and ODA
Charles Nicholas, Lawrence A. Welsch · 1992
SGML and ODA are international standards for the markup and interchange of electronic documents.These standards are incompatible, in the sense that in general a document encoded using SGML cannot be used directly in an ODA-based system, and vice versa.We first describe these two standards, and suggest criteria under which a bridge between the two standards could be evaluated.We then evaluate the Office Docu- ment Language (ODL), an SGML application specifically designed for ODA documents, with respect to these criteria.We then describe a translation program that converts SGML documents to ODA and back.