NAME

       sgmlpre - handle SGML conditionalization for SGML-tools

SYNOPSIS

       sgmlpre [options] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly the 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.

       (Begin Quotes)

              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).

       (End Quotes)

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).

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