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SGML/XML SongsThis collection of songs from people who really should know better shows just how easy it is to combine SGML and XML with fine lyrics and catchy tunes! Have you ever felt that SGML and XML are so good that you just want to sing? Is your secret ambition to be a songwriter but you've never known how to make the transition from being a geek? Do you feel that your company song doesn't fit the needs of your workgroup and you want something more SGML- or XML-specific to sing each morning? If you have an SGML or XML song that you would like to share, please contact Deborah A. Lapeyre ([email protected]). The Beach Boys Collection
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All lyrics copyright their respective authors. Return to the Mulberry home page The Beach Boys CollectionServin' XMLby Syd Bauman & Julia Flanders (to the tune of "Surfin' USA" by the Beach Boys) If everybody had a notion The kind that rings a bell To modify that big behemoth We call SGML You'd see them dropping those features That make our lives like hell Servin' up real data-- Servin' XML Look no DOCTYPE, XML Look no DOCTYPE, XML We'll all be priming our browsers And tuning our display For context-sensitive searching On servers far away-- We'll all be gone for the hour We're surfing through the bell Tell the teacher we're searchin'-- Searchin' XML We'll say goodbye to SUBDOC And to the big CONCUR We're happy ditching our DOCTYPEs Like they never were We'll be well-formed as all get out No one could ever tell That we ever had SHORTREF Or used SGML. Valid XMLby Michael Sperberg-McQueen (to the tune of "California Girls" by the Beach Boys) Well-formed docs are hip, I really dig those tags they wear, And PDFs, with their fallback fonts, They print on printers everywhere. Full S-G-M-L can make Your parser feel all right, And H-T-M-L, with the U-R-L links, They keep the servers warm at night! I wish they all could be valid XML. I wish they all could be valid XML. I wish they all could be valid XML. Parser Appby Tony Graham (to the tune of "Surfer Girl" by the Beach Boys) Little parser, little one. Have my tags come all undone? Is it valid, is it, parser app? I have launched you on the doc Showing as a hot spot. Is it valid, is it, parser app? We could surf the web together picking links to follow In my browser I would take you everywhere I go. So I say from me to you, "Only valid XML will do." Is it valid, is it, parser app? OthersBits on a DiskBy Syd Bauman & Julia Flanders (to "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas) I close my eyes-- Only for a moment, but my text is gone All those words-- pass into the ether of eternity Bits on a disk--all it was was bits on a disk Same old song-- Software from the network that I got for free Big blank screen-- "Abort Retry Ignore" is all it says to me Bits on a disk--all it was was bits on a disk Don't give up-- Text can last forever if you back up right But alas--I haven't made a backup since last Wednesday night Bits on a disk ... DTDsBy Deborah A. Lapeyre (to "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer) I think that I shall never see well-formed, without a DTD. A DTD whose form expressed By several parsers has been blessed; One that controls what I can see, And lets me search predictably! For documents may form-less be Without the aid of DTD, To force the structured form we love (That intimately lives in groves). MoralText is penned by fools like me, But it's a mess, sans DTD. I Use DSSSLBy Tony Graham (to the tune of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" by Andrew Lloyd-Webber) This won't be easy, you'll think it's strange. When I try to explain how I print - that I use an ISO standard after all that I've done. You won't believe me. All you will see is the good output, although it's dressed up to the nines - it started with S-G-M-L I had to let it happen. I had to change. Couldn't stay being proprietary. Stuck with one vendor, No choice of software. So I choose freedom. Running around, trying everything new. But nothing impressed me at all. I never expected it too. Don't cry for me, I use DSSSL. The truth is it is quite good: Style sheet language, Flow object tree, A choice of backends. You should try it. My Favorite ThingsBy Syd Bauman & Julia Flanders (to the tune of "My Favorite Things" by Rogers and Hammerstein) Big feature structures with <f>s and <fs>s, <Certainty> tags that record all my guesses, Page breaks and forme work and <milestone> flags, These are a few of my favorite tags. <Front>, <body>, <back> in a text with a header <Div>s nesting deeply, now what could be better? <Castgroup>s in <castlist>s and <l>s in <lg>, These are the things that I like in P3 When I'm surfing And I download Formats I deplore, I smugly reflect on my TEI text And then I rejoice once more. PI PI PIBy Tony Graham (to the tune of "Money Money Money" by Abba) I parse all night, I parse all day, to check against my DTD Ain't it sad And still it seems the DTD is not so necessary That's too bad In my dreams I have planned If I joined the XML band I wouldn't use a DTD at all, I'd fool around and have a ball... PI, PI, PI Use any GI In an XML world PI, PI, PI Add a PI And be well-formed Aha-ahaaa All the things I could do If I add a little PI In an XML world No more link or shorttags, but we need empty tag end-tags Ain't it sad And so to SGML be, I think we need a TC That's too bad If I link, I'll use XLL Or to print, XSL So XML is the game, SGML will never be the same... PI, PI, PI Use any GI In an XML world PI, PI, PI Add a PI And be well-formed Aha-ahaaa All the things I could do If I add a little PI In an XML world PI, PI, PI Use any GI In an XML world PI, PI, PI Add a PI And be well-formed Aha-ahaaa All the things I could do If I add a little PI In an XML world In an XML world T-E-IBy Syd Bauman & Julia Flanders (to the tune of "Do Re Mi" by Rogers and Hammerstein) Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. When you read you begin with A, B, C. When you encode you begin With T-E-I. T-E-I? T-E-I. And now I will have to tell you why T-E-I. T-E-I! T-E-I-S-G-M-L Oh, let's see if I can make it easier. T, a text, an encoded text. E, a bunch of entities. I, an IDREF for myself. S, a set of nested trees. G, a gen-e-ric I.D., M, for marking up your best, L, a metric line to me! that will bring us back to T text-text-text! Now, encoders, T-E-I-S-G and so on, are only the tools you use to build a text. Once you have these tags in your heads, you can encode a million different texts by mixing them up. Like this: G, T, M, S, I, T, E. Can you do that? G, T, M, S, I, T, E. G, T, M, L, T, E, T. G, T, M, L, T, E, T. Now, put it all together! G, T, M, S, I, T, E. G, T, M, L, T, E, T! Good! But it doesn't mean anything! So we put in tags. Two tags for every element. Like this: When you know the tags to use, T-E-I is what you'll choose! Use P3By Syd Bauman & Julia Flanders (to "Let it Be" by The Beatles) When I find myself with untagged data, Brother Michael comes to me, Speaking words of wisdom, Use P3 And in my hour of parsing, he is standing right in front of me, Speaking words of wisdom, Use P3 Use P3, Use P3, Use P3 yeah use P3 Write it in your DOCTYPE, use P3. And when the data capture projects tagging in the world agree, there will be an answer, Use P3 For with a sudden rapture there is still a chance that they will see the one and only answer, Use P3 And when the data's lousy there is still a helpful DTD Parse until tomorrow with P3 I wake up to the sound of progress--Lou and Michael at the door Speaking words of wisdom Here's P4! Use P4, use P4, use P4 yeah use P4, Perfecting all our data, use P4. The XML BunchBy Tony Graham and G. Ken Holman (to the tune of the "Brady Bunch" theme song) Here's the story of an ISO effort that was working on three standards for a while All of them were quite complex (S-G-M-L!); the youngest one did styles It's the story of a World Wide Web that was busy with some standards of its own H-T-M-L and some others yet they were all alone 'Till the one day when the standards met the Web and they knew that it was much more than a hunch that they all could somehow work together that's the way we all became The XML Bunch The XML Bunch The XML Bunch that's the way we became The XML Bunch The XML HillbilliesBy Tony Graham and Deborah A. Lapeyre (to the tune of the "Beverly Hillbillies" theme song) This is the story of a man named Jon, Great diplomat, ne'er put a foot wrong, 'Till one day he was shooting off his mouth, To shut him up, got his own working group, XML that is, SGML on the Web. This is the story of a man named Tim, Worked pat and lector, not much comin' in, 'Till one day he said "Here's XML" Now, as we know, Tim's utterly cool: Working drafts, XML.com, geeky cool. This is the story of a man named James, Lived in Thailan', followed his own aims, 'Till one day he was made the tech lead, And in XML we got what we need, Valid, of course, well-formed, PI targets. This is the story of Michael the guy, Did many things, even wrote TEI, 'Till one day he said "Light SGML", As punishment, made him edit XML, Write that is, dot the "i"s, cross the "t"s. This is the story of a man named Pete, Chemist in U.K, says mol'cules are neat, 'Till one day he got into tools, Made a mailing list away from the fools, Dev that is, XML-Dev, geek talk. This is the story of a man named Dave English Doc, old enough to shave, 'Till one day he said "Let's have a try", And on the list they built an API, SAX that is, Simple API for XML. This is the story of a man named Rob, Liked XML more than his job, 'Till one day he swapped right over, Now XML is covered by Cover, Robin that is, Robin Cover's Web Page. This is the story of a man named Flynn, First name's "Pete", ain't that confusin'. 'Till one day he saw th' same question again, Said, I'll write 'em down 'n save brain strain, FAQ that is, Frequently Asked Questions. Return to the Mulberry home page Selected lyrics copyright © 1997 by Syd Bauman & Julia Flanders. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document in any medium, or to create derivative formats (including those for printing) provided that the header, particularly this copyright notice and permission notice, are preserved, and that the distributor grants the recipient permission for further redistribution as permitted by this notice. This notice closely follows that of the GNU Public License. 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