NAME
sgmlpre - handle SGML conditionalization for SGML-tools
SYNOPSIS
sgmlpre
[options] ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
R sgmlpre
commands.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page for sgmlpre.
sgmlpre
is a program that handle SGML conditionalization for SGML-tools
It is used by other programs in sgml-tools (v1), and usually
normal user does not need to use this program directly by himself.
Following is quoted from the header in the source code.
sgmlpre -- handle SGML conditionalization for SGML-tools
by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>, 3 Nov 1997
Filter SGML according to conditionalizing markup. Argument/value pairs
from the command line are matched against the attributes of <#if> and
<#unless> tags. Spans between <#if>/</#if> are passed through unaltered
if there is no attribute mismatch; spans between <#unless></#unless> are
passed if there is at least one attribute mismatch. An attribute mismatch
happens if an attribute occurs in both the command-line arguments and the
tag, but the values do not match. Value matching is by string equality,
except that "|" is interpreted as an alternation character. Even if a span
is not passed through, its newlines are (this to avoid messing up the
line numbers in error messages).
This lexer requires flex. Limitations; attribute names may only be
256 chars long, values may be only 16384 (YY_BUF_SIZE) characters long.
Doesn't do checking that only </if> matches <if> and </unless> matches
<unless> (that would need a stack and introduce another limit).
OPTIONS
The program does not support normal command line options.
SEE ALSO
For a complete description, see the header in the source archive.
AUTHOR
sgmlpre
was written by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>, 3 Nov 1997.
This manual page was written by Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
