SP

An SGML System Conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language

The following documents are available:

• Summary of SP's features
• How to get SP
• How to build and install SP from source
• Using SP
  • What's new in SP?
  • nsgmls, a replacement for sgmls
  • nsgmls output format, an extension to the output format of sgmls
  • spam, a sophisticated normalizer, perhaps better thought of as a markup stream editor
  • sgmlnorm, a simpler normalizer that focuses on producing the same ESIS rather than preserving details of the markup
  • sx, a converter from SGML to XML
  • spent, a program providing access to SP's entity manager
  • XML support
  • System declaration
  • Handling of SGML declarations
  • Handling of character sets
  • System identifiers
  • Using SGML Open catalogs to generate system identifiers
  • Architectural form support
• Programming with SP
  • Generic API to SP
  • Ideas for improving SP

There is a mailing list for programmer-level discussions of SP. Mail subscription requests [email protected]. Messages for the list should go to [email protected].

For information about SGML, see

• The SGML/XML Web Page.
• ISO 8879:1986
• The SGML Handbook, Charles F. Goldfarb

I would like to hear about any bugs you find in SP. When reporting a bug, please always include a complete self-contained file that will enable me to reproduce the bug. I am also interested in receiving suggestions for improvements to SP no matter how small.