<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>SP - Features Summary</TITLE> <BODY> <H1> SP </H1> <H3> A free, object-oriented toolkit for SGML parsing and entity management </H3> <H2> Features summary </H2> <UL> <LI> Includes nsgmls <UL> <LI> Compatible with sgmls <LI> Also generates RAST (ISO/IEC 13673) </UL> <LI> Provides access to all information about SGML document <UL> <LI> Access to DTD and SGML declaration as well as document instance <LI> Access to markup as well as abstract document <LI> Sufficient to recreate character-for-character identical copy of any SGML document </UL> <LI> Supports almost all optional SGML features <UL> <LI> Arbitrary concrete syntaxes <LI> SHORTTAG, OMITTAG, RANK <LI> SUBDOC <LI> LINK (SIMPLE, IMPLICIT and EXPLICIT) <LI> Only DATATAG and CONCUR not supported </UL> <LI> Sophisticated entity manager <UL> <LI> Supports ISO/IEC 10744 Formal System Identifiers <LI> Supports SGML Open catalogs <LI> Supports WWW <LI> Can be used independently of parser </UL> <LI> Supports multi-byte character sets <UL> <LI> Parser can use 16-bit characters internally <LI> 16-bit characters can be used in tag names and other markup <LI> Supports ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode) using both UCS-2 and UTF-8 <LI> Supports Japanese character sets (Shift-JIS, EUC) </UL> <LI> Object-oriented <LI> Written in C++ from scratch <UL> <LI> Not a modified version of a parser originally written in C <LI> Reentrant <LI> Sophisticated architecture </UL> <LI> Fast <UL> <LI> Up to twice as fast as sgmls on large documents </UL> <LI> Portable <UL> <LI> All major Unix variants <LI> MS-DOS <LI> Win32: Windows 95/Windows NT <LI> OS/2 </UL> <LI> Production quality <UL> <LI> Version 1.0 recently released, after a year of test releases <LI> Tested using several SGML test suites <LI> Already used in several new commercial products <LI> Written by James Clark, previously responsible for turning arcsgml into sgmls </UL> <LI> Free <UL> <LI> Includes source code <LI> No restrictions on commercial use </UL> <LI> Disadvantages <UL> <LI> Programmer-level documentation only for generic API and not for native API. </UL> </UL> <P> <ADDRESS> James Clark<BR> jjc@jclark.com </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>