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Sgmls version 1.0 is now available for anonymous ftp from

 ftp.uu.net:/pub/text-processing/sgml/sgmls-1.0.tar.Z
 sgml1.ex.ac.uk:/sgmls/sgmls-1.0.tar.Z

The size of the distribution is about 350k.  Remember to use binary
mode when getting the file.

An MS-DOS executable with formatted documentation is available from

  ftp.uu.net:/pub/text-processing/sgml/sgmls1_0.zip

The size of this is approximately 80k.  I make no guarantee that this
will work on any system at all, nor that it will not completely
destroy your system.  It was prepared on a Toshiba 286 portable
running MS-DOS 4.01.

If you run an archive, you can get new releases of sgmls automatically
by mirroring the directory ftp.jclark.com:/pub/sgmls.

Version 1.0 is primarily a bug-fix release.  The only new feature is
to allow 8-bit characters to be used in names (with an appropriate
NAMING rules parameter in the SGML declaration).

Sgmls is an SGML parser derived from the ARCSGML parser materials
which were written by Charles Goldfarb.  It works on Unix, MS-DOS and
VAX/VMS.  It should be straightforward to port to most systems that
provide ANSI C and use an ASCII-based character set.  It outputs a
simple, easily parsed, line oriented, ASCII representation of an SGML
document's Element Structure Information Set (see pp 588-593 of ``The
SGML Handbook'').  It is intended to be used as the front end for
structure-controlled SGML applications.  For compatibility with the
Amsterdam SGML Parser (ASP), there is also a filter that translates
the output of sgmls using an ASP replacement file.

I am happy to receive bug reports and suggestions for improvements (by
email, please: I don't usually read this group).  Thanks to all those
who reported bugs in previous releases; particular thanks to Denis
Excoffier for numerous bug reports.

James Clark
jjc@jclark.com