pkgsrc/textproc/sp/pkg/DESCR
rh edefd85474 Initial import of sp-1.3, an SGML system conforming to ISO-8879 as
provided by Martin Laubach (with a few modifications to work under
NetBSD-1.3.3 as well as -current) -- thanks!
1999-03-13 13:57:40 +00:00

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A free, object-oriented toolkit for SGML parsing and entity management
* 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)