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)