NAME
sgml2xml-isoent - Convert SGML to XML with support for
ISO entities
SYNOPSIS
sgml2xml-isoent [sgml-document]
DESCRIPTION
sgml2xml-isoent converts an SGML
document to XML, with support for the ISO entities. This is done by
using sgml2xml(1)
from the SP package (or osx(1) from
the OpenSP package), and the declaration for the XML version of the
ISO entities is added to the output. This means that the output of
this conversion should work as-is with any XML tool.
This program is often used for processing SGML DocBook documents
with XML-based tools. In particular, db2x_xsltproc(1)
calls this program as part of its --sgml option. On the
other hand, it is probably not helpful for migrating a source SGML
text file to XML, since the conversion mangles the original
formatting.
Since the XML version of the ISO entities are referred to
directly, not via a DTD, this tool also works with document types
other than DocBook.
NOTES
The ISO entities are referred using the public
identifiers ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES//...//EN//XML. The
catalogs used when parsing the converted document should resolve
these entities to the appropriate place (on the local filesystem).
If the entities are not resolved in the catalog, then the fallback
is to get the entity files from the http://www.docbook.org/ Web site.
AUTHOR
Steve Cheng <stevecheng@users.sourceforge.net>.
SEE ALSO
sgml2xml(1),
osx(1)