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My question is this: Is there standard SGML-DTD for DTD? I have no access to ISO 8879:1986, so I can't check it.


Not really. SGML (and XML) are "meta-markup languages", meaning you declare your vocabulary yourself or use a ready-made one. There is in fact a simple general-purpose vocabulary declared in an ISO/IEC 8879:1986 appendix consisting of generic paragraph and heading elements, but it's not widely used in that form.


This gets close to my point.

Even people working with the standard don't want or don't need to SGML. Similarly for CSS.




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