OpenSP

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

An SGML Extended Facilities system conforming to Annex A of International Standard ISO/IEC 10744 -- Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language

The following documents are available:

• Summary of OpenSP's features
• How to get OpenSP
• How to build and install OpenSP from source
• Using OpenSP
  • What's new in OpenSP? (see also What's new in SP (up to 1.3) ?)
  • onsgmls, a replacement for sgmls
  • onsgmls output format, an extension to the output format of sgmls
  • ospam, a sophisticated normalizer, perhaps better thought of as a markup stream editor
  • osgmlnorm, a simpler normalizer that focuses on producing the same ESIS rather than preserving details of the markup
  • osx, a converter from SGML to XML
  • ospent, a program providing access to OpenSP's entity manager
  • ospcat, a cmdline interface to OpenSP's catalog 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 OpenSP
  • Generic API to OpenSP
  • Ideas for improving SP (old)

There is a mailing list for discussions of OpenJade and OpenSP. Mail to jade-devel-help@infomansol.com for subscription information. Messages for the list should go to jade-devel@infomansol.com.

For information about SGML, see

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

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