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SP
A free, object-oriented toolkit for SGML parsing and entity management
Features summary
Includes nsgmls
Compatible with sgmls
Also generates RAST (ISO/IEC 13673)
Provides access to all information about SGML document
Access to DTD and SGML declaration as well as document instance
Access to markup as well as abstract document
Sufficient to recreate character-for-character identical copy of any SGML document
Supports almost all optional SGML features
Arbitrary concrete syntaxes
SHORTTAG, OMITTAG, RANK
SUBDOC
LINK (SIMPLE, IMPLICIT and EXPLICIT)
Only DATATAG and CONCUR not supported
Sophisticated entity manager
Supports ISO/IEC 10744 Formal System Identifiers
Supports SGML Open catalogs
Supports WWW
Can be used independently of parser
Supports multi-byte character sets
Parser can use 16-bit characters internally
16-bit characters can be used in tag names and other markup
Supports ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode) using both UCS-2 and UTF-8
Supports Japanese character sets (Shift-JIS, EUC)
Object-oriented
Written in C++ from scratch
Not a modified version of a parser originally written in C
Reentrant
Sophisticated architecture
Fast
Up to twice as fast as sgmls on large documents
Portable
All major Unix variants
MS-DOS
Win32: Windows 95/Windows NT
OS/2
Production quality
Version 1.0 recently released, after a year of test releases
Tested using several SGML test suites
Already used in several new commercial products
Written by James Clark, previously responsible for turning arcsgml into sgmls
Free
Includes source code
No restrictions on commercial use
Disadvantages
Programmer-level documentation only for generic API and not for native API.
James Clark
[email protected]