ISO/IEC 10179:1996
Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
(DSSSL)

DSSSL Links

• the final text of the standard in SGML, PostScript and PDF formats
• Online browseable version of DSSSL final draft
• DSSSL Online specification
• Proposal for a Technical Corrigendum to the DSSSL standard. This includes a list of errata.
• Jon Bosak's collection of DSSSL materials including examples and stylesheets for Docbook and HTML also available by ftp
• Introduction to DSSSL, a tutorial by Paul Prescod.
• An Introduction to DSSSL, a tutorial by Daniel M. Germán.
• DSSSL Syntax Summary from Harvey Bingham
• Jade, James Clark's freely available implementation of the DSSSL style language
• HyBrick, Fujitsu Laboratories' SGML/XML browser
• Henry Thompson's DSSSL Syntax Checker (DSC)
• Copernican Solutions SENG DSSSL environment
• DSSSList, the DSSSL Users' Mailing List. To subscribe send mail to majordomo@mulberrytech.com with "subscribe dssslist" as the body of your message). The list is archived.
• Crane Softwrights Ltd offer DSSSL training.
• DSSSL stylesheets for DocBook from Norman Walsh.

Historical DSSSL materials

Some of these are out of date, so use with caution.

• slides for a talk on the DSSSL Style Language given to the British Computer Society Electronic Publishing SIG on 1996-07-11
• slides for Advanced Topics in DSSSL talk, given at SGML 95.
• slides for a talk on DSSSL, given to the Norwegian SGML User's Group on 1994/11/23
• a collection of examples using the transformation language, the transformation part of DSSSL
• an example style language specification for documents conforming to this DTD; this specifies some more complex kinds of formatting, such as footnotes, figures and multiple columns, which are not handled by DSSSL Online. This is based on the example that was presented at SGML 95 in the ABCs of DSSSL Tutorial.

You might also enjoy Joe English's DSSSL Song.