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NAME

       nsgmls - a validating SGML parser

       An  System Conforming to
       International Standard ISO 8879 —
       Standard Generalized Markup Language

SYNOPSIS

       nsgmls  [  -BCdeglprsuv  ]  [  -alinktype  ]  [  -b(bctf|encoding)  ]  [  -Ddirectory  ] [
       -Emax_errors ] [ -ffile ] [ -iname ] [  -msysid  ]  [  -ooutput_option  ]  [  -tfile  ]  [
       -wwarning_type ] [ sysid...  ]

WARNING

       This  manual  page may be out of date.  Consult the HTML documentation for the most up-to-
       date  information  concerning  this  program.   You  can  find  the  HTML   document   in:
       /usr/share/doc/sp/nsgmls.htm

DESCRIPTION

       Nsgmls parses and validates the  document whose document entity is specified by the system
       identifiers sysid...  and prints on the standard output a simple  text  representation  of
       its  Element  Structure  Information Set.  (This is the information set which a structure-
       controlled conforming  application should act upon.)  The form of  system  identifiers  is
       described  in  detail  below;  a system identifier that does not start with < and does not
       look like an absolute URL will be  treated  as  a  filename.   If  more  than  one  system
       identifier  is specified, then the corresponding entities will be concatenated to form the
       document entity.  Thus the document entity  may  be  spread  amongst  several  files;  for
       example,  the  SGML  declaration,  prolog  and  document  instance  set could each be in a
       separate file.  If no system identifiers are specified, then nsgmls will read the document
       entity  from  the  standard  input.   A command line system identifier of - can be used to
       refer to the standard input.  (Normally in a system identifier, <osfd>0 is used  to  refer
       to standard input.)

       The following options are available:

       -alinktype
              Make  link  type linktype active.  Not all ESIS information is output in this case:
              the active LPDs are not  explicitly  reported,  although  each  link  attribute  is
              qualified  with  its link type name; there is no information about result elements;
              when there are multiple link rules applicable to the current element, nsgmls always
              chooses the first.

       -b(bctf|encoding)
              This  determines  the  encoding  used for output. If in fixed character set mode it
              specifies the name of an encoding; if not, it specifies the name of  a  BCTF.   See
              the description below of the bctf storage manager attribute for more information.

       -B     Batch  mode.  Parse  each sysid... specified on the command line separately, rather
              than concatenating them. This is useful mainly with -s.
              If -tfilename is also specified, then the specified filename will  be  prefixed  to
              the sysid to make the filename for the RAST result for each sysid.

       -C     The  filename...   arguments specify catalog files rather than the document entity.
              The document entity is specified by the first DOCUMENT entry in the catalog files.

       -Ddirectory
              Search directory for files specified in system identifiers.   Multiple  -D  options
              are  allowed.   See  the  description  of  the  osfile  storage  manager  for  more
              information about file searching.

       -e     Describe open entities in  error  messages.   Error  messages  always  include  the
              position of the most recently opened external entity.

       -E max_errors
              Nsgmls  will exit after max_errors errors. If max_errors is 0, there is no limit on
              the number of errors. The default is 200.

       -ffile Redirect errors to file.  This is useful mainly with shells  that  do  not  support
              redirection of stderr.

       -g     Show the GIs of open elements in error messages.

       -iname Pretend that

                     <!ENTITY % name "INCLUDE">

              occurs  at  the  start  of  the  document  type declaration subset in the  document
              entity.  Since repeated definitions of an entity are ignored, this definition  will
              take  precedence  over  any  other  definitions of this entity in the document type
              declaration.  Multiple -i options are allowed.  If the   declaration  replaces  the
              reserved  name  INCLUDE  then the new reserved name will be the replacement text of
              the entity.  Typically the document type declaration will contain

                     <!ENTITY % name "IGNORE">

              and will use %name; in  the  status  keyword  specification  of  a  marked  section
              declaration.   In  this  case  the effect of the option will be to cause the marked
              section not to be ignored.

       -msysid
              Map public identifiers and entity names to system  identifiers  using  the  catalog
              entry  file whose system identifier is sysid.  Multiple -m options are allowed.  If
              there is a catalog entry file called catalog in the  same  place  as  the  document
              entity, it will be searched for immediately after those specified by -m.

       -ooutput_option
              Output additional information accordig to output_option:

              entity Output  definitions  of  all  general  entities  not just for data or subdoc
                     entities that are referenced or named in an ENTITY or ENTITIES attribute.

              id     Distinguish attributes whose declared value is ID.

              line   Output L commands giving the current line number and filename.

              included
                     Output an i command for included subelements.

              Multiple -o options are allowed.

       -p     Parse  only  the  prolog.   Nsgmls  will  exit  after  parsing  the  document  type
              declaration.  Implies -s.

       -s     Suppress output.  Error messages will still be printed.

       -tfile Output  to  file  the  RAST  result as defined by ISO/IEC 13673:1995 (actually this
              isn't quite  an  IS  yet;  this  implements  the  Intermediate  Editor's  Draft  of
              1994/08/29,  with  changes  to  implement ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 N1777).  The normal
              output is not produced.

       -v     Print the version number.

       -wtype Control warnings and errors.  Multiple  -w  options  are  allowed.   The  following
              values of type enable warnings:

              mixed  Warn about mixed content models that do not allow #pcdata anywhere.

              sgmldecl
                     Warn about various dubious constructions in the SGML declaration.

              should Warn  about  various recommendations made in ISO 8879 that the document does
                     not  comply  with.   (Recommendations  are  expressed  with  ``should'',  as
                     distinct from requirements which are usually expressed with ``shall''.)

              default
                     Warn about defaulted references.

              duplicate
                     Warn about duplicate entity declarations.

              undefined
                     Warn about undefined elements: elements used in the DTD but not defined.

              unclosed
                     Warn about unclosed start and end-tags.

              empty  Warn about empty start and end-tags.

              net    Warn about net-enabling start-tags and null end-tags.

              min-tag
                     Warn  about  minimized  start  and  end-tags.   Equivalent to combination of
                     unclosed, empty and net warnings.

              unused-map
                     Warn about unused short reference maps: maps that are declared with a  short
                     reference  mapping  declaration  but  never  used  in  a short reference use
                     declaration in the DTD.

              unused-param
                     Warn about parameter entities that are defined but not used in a DTD.

              all    Warn about conditions that should usually be avoided (in the opinion of  the
                     author).   Equivalent  to:  mixed,  should,  default,  undefined,  sgmldecl,
                     unused-map, unused-param, empty and unclosed.

              A warning can be disabled by using its name prefixed with  no-.   Thus  -wall -wno-
              duplicate   will   enable   all   warnings  except  those  about  duplicate  entity
              declarations.

              The following values for warning_type disable errors:

              no-idref
                     Do not give an error for an ID reference value which no element has  as  its
                     ID.   The  effect  will  be as if each attribute declared as an ID reference
                     value had been declared as a name.

              no-significant
                     Do not give an error when a character that is not a significant character in
                     the  reference  concrete syntax occurs in a literal in the SGML declaration.
                     This may be useful in conjunction with certain buggy test suites.

       The following options are also supported for backwards compatibility with sgmls:

       -d     Same as -wduplicate.

       -l     Same as -oline.

       -r     Same as -wdefault.

       -u     Same as -wundef.

   System identifiers
       A system identifier  can  either  be  a  formal  system  identifier  or  a  simple  system
       identifier.  A system identifier that is a formal system identifier consists of a sequence
       of one or more storage object specifications.  The objects specified by the storage object
       specifications  are  concatenated  to  form  the  entity.   A storage object specification
       consists of an SGML start-tag in the reference concrete syntax followed by character  data
       content.   The  generic identifier of the start-tag is the name of a storage manager.  The
       content is a storage object identifier which identifies the storage  object  in  a  manner
       dependent  on  the  storage  manager.   The  start-tag  can also specify attributes giving
       additional information  about  the  storage  object.   Numeric  character  references  are
       recognized  in  storage  object identifiers and attribute value literals in the start-tag.
       Record ends are ignored  in  the  storage  object  identifier  as  with  SGML.   A  system
       identifier  will  be  interpreted  as  a  formal  system  identifier if it starts with a <
       followed by a storage manager name, followed by either > or white-space; otherwise it will
       be  interpreted  as a simple system identifier.  A storage object identifier extends until
       the end of the system identifier or until the first occurrence of < followed by a  storage
       manager name, followed by either > or white-space.

       The following storage managers are available:

       osfile The  storage  object  identifier  is a filename.  If the filename is relative it is
              resolved using a base filename.  Normally the base filename is the name of the file
              in which the storage object identifier was specified, but this can be changed using
              the base attribute.  The filename will be searched for first in  the  directory  of
              the  base  filename.   If  it  is  not found there, then it will be searched for in
              directories specified with the -D option in the order in which they were  specified
              on  the  command  line,  and  then  in  the  list  of  directories specified by the
              environment variable SGML_SEARCH_PATH.  The list is separated by colons under  Unix
              and by semi-colons under MSDOS.

       osfd   The  storage  object identifier is an integer specifying a file descriptor.  Thus a
              system identifier of <osfd>0 will refer to the standard input.

       url    The storage object identifier  is  a  URL.   Only  the  http  scheme  is  currently
              supported and not on all systems.

       neutral
              The  storage  manager  is the storage manager of storage object in which the system
              identifier  was  specified  (the  underlying  storage  manager).   However  if  the
              underlying  storage manager does not support named storage objects (ie it is osfd),
              then the storage manager will be osfile.  The storage object identifier is  treated
              as  a  relative, hierarchical name separated by slashes (/) and will be transformed
              as appropriate for the underlying storage manager.

       The following attributes are supported:

       records
              This describes how records are delimited in the storage object:

              cr     Records are terminated by a carriage return.

              lf     Records are terminated by a line feed.

              crlf   Records are terminated by a carriage return followed by a line feed.

              find   Records are terminated by whichever of cr, lf or crlf is  first  encountered
                     in the storage object.

              asis   No recognition of records is performed.

              The default is find except for NDATA entities for which the default is asis.

              When  records are recognized in a storage object, a record start is inserted at the
              beginning of each record, and a record end at the end of each record.  If there  is
              a  partial record (a record that doesn't end with the record terminator) at the end
              of the entity, then a record start will be inserted before it  but  no  record  end
              will be inserted after it.

              The attribute name and = can be omitted for this attribute.

       zapeof This  specifies  whether a Control-Z character that occurs as the final byte in the
              storage object should be stripped.  The following values are allowed:

              zapeof A final Control-Z should be stripped.

              nozapeof
                     A final Control-Z should not be stripped.

              The default is zapeof except for  NDATA  entities,  entities  declared  in  storage
              objects with zapeof=nozapeof and storage objects with records=asis.

              The attribute name and = can be omitted for this attribute.

       bctf   The  bctf  (bit  combination transformation format) attribute describes how the bit
              combinations of the storage object are transformed into the sequence of bytes  that
              are  contained  in  the  object  identified by the storage object identifier.  This
              inverse of this transformation is performed  when  the  entity  manager  reads  the
              storage object.  It has one of the following values:

              identity
                     Each bit combination is represented by a single byte.

              fixed-2
                     Each  bit  combination  is  represented  by  exactly  2 bytes, with the more
                     significant byte first.

              utf-8  Each bit combination is represented by a variable number of bytes  according
                     to  UCS  Transformation Format 8 defined in Annex P to be added by the first
                     proposed drafted amendment (PDAM 1) to ISO/IEC
                      10646-1:1993.

              euc-jp Each bit combination is treated as a pair of bytes,  most  significant  byte
                     first,         encoding         a         character         using        the
                     Extended_UNIX_Code_Fixed_Width_for_Japanese   Internet   charset,   and   is
                     transformed  into  the  variable length sequence of octets that would encode
                     that  character  using   the   Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese
                     Internet charset.

              sjis   Each  bit  combination  is treated as a pair of bytes, most significant byte
                     first,        encoding         a         character         using         the
                     Extended_UNIX_Code_Fixed_Width_for_Japanese   Internet   charset,   and   is
                     transformed into the variable length sequence of  bytes  that  would  encode
                     that character using the Shift_JIS Internet charset.

              unicode
                     Each  bit combination is represented by 2 bytes.  The bytes representing the
                     entire storage object may be preceded by a pair of  bytes  representing  the
                     byte  order  mark  character  (0xFEFF).   The  bytes  representing  each bit
                     combination are in the  system  byte  order,  unless  the  byte  order  mark
                     character  is  present,  in which case the order of its bytes determines the
                     byte order.  When the storage object is read, any byte order mark  character
                     is discarded.

              is8859-N
                     N can be any single digit other than 0.  Each bit combination is interpreted
                     as the number of a character in ISO/IEC 10646  and  is  represented  by  the
                     single  byte  that  would encode that character in ISO 8859-N.  These values
                     are not supported with the -b option.

              Values other than identity are  supported  only  with  the  multi-byte  version  of
              nsgmls.

       tracking
              This  specifies  whether line boundaries should be tracked for this object: a value
              of track specifies that they should; a value of notrack specifies that they  should
              not.   The default value is track.  Keeping track of where line boundaries occur in
              a storage object requires approximately one byte of storage per line and it may  be
              desirable to disable this for very large storage objects.

              The attribute name and = can be omitted for this attribute.

       base   When  the  storage object identifier specified in the content of the storage object
              specification is relative,  this  specifies  the  base  storage  object  identifier
              relative  to  which  that  storage  object identifier should be resolved.  When not
              specified a storage object identifier is interpreted relative to the storage object
              in  which  it  is specified, provided that this has the same storage manager.  This
              applies both to system identifiers  specified  in  SGML  documents  and  to  system
              identifiers specified in the catalog entry files.

       smcrd  The  value  is  a  single  character  that  will  be  recognized  in storage object
              identifiers (both in the content of storage object specifications and in the  value
              of  base  attributes)  as  a  storage  manager  character  reference delimiter when
              followed by a digit.  A storage manager character reference is like an SGML numeric
              character  reference except that the number is interpreted as a character number in
              the inherent character  set  of  the  storage  manager  rather  than  the  document
              character  set.   The  default  is  for  no character to be recognized as a storage
              manager character reference delimiter.  Numeric character references cannot be used
              to prevent recognition of storage manager character reference delimiters.

       fold   This applies only to the neutral storage manager.  It specifies whether the storage
              object identifier should be folded to the customary case of the underlying  storage
              manager  if  storage object identifiers for the underlying storage manager are case
              sensitive.  The following values are allowed:

              fold   The storage object identifier will be folded.

              nofold The storage object identifier will not be folded.

              The default value is fold.  The attribute name  and  =  can  be  omitted  for  this
              attribute.

              For  example, on Unix filenames are case-sensitive and the customary case is lower-
              case.  So if the underlying storage manager were osfile and the system was  a  Unix
              system, then <neutral>FOO.SGM would be equivalent to <osfile>foo.sgm.

       A  simple  system  identifier is interpreted as a storage object identifier with a storage
       manager that depends on where the system identifier was specified: if it was specified  in
       a  storage  object whose storage manager was url or if the system identifier looks like an
       absolute URL in a supported scheme, the storage manager will be url; otherwise the storage
       manager  will  be  osfile.   The  storage manager attributes are defaulted as for a formal
       system identifier.  Numeric character references  are  not  recognized  in  simple  system
       identifiers.

   System identifier generation
       The  entity  manager  generates  an  effective system identifier for every external entity
       using catalog entry files  in  the  format  defined  by  SGML  Open  Technical  Resolution
       9401:1994.  The entity manager will give an error if it is unable to generate an effective
       system identifier for an external entity.  Normally if  the  external  identifier  for  an
       entity includes a system identifier then the entity manager will use that as the effective
       system identifier for the entity; this behaviour can be changed using OVERRIDE  or  SYSTEM
       entries in a catalog entry file.

       A catalog entry file contains a sequence of entries in one of the following forms:

       PUBLIC pubid sysid
              This  specifies that sysid should be used as the effective system identifier if the
              public identifier is pubid.  Sysid is a system identifier as defined  in  ISO  8879
              and pubid is a public identifier as defined in ISO 8879.

       ENTITY name sysid
              This  specifies that sysid should be used as the effective system identifier if the
              entity is a general entity whose name is name.

       ENTITY %name sysid
              This specifies that sysid should be used as the effective system identifier if  the
              entity  is  a  parameter  entity  whose  name is name.  Note that there is no space
              between the % and the name.

       DOCTYPE name sysid
              This specifies that sysid should be used as the effective system identifier if  the
              entity  is  an  entity  declared in a document type declaration whose document type
              name is name.

       LINKTYPE name sysid
              This specifies that sysid should be used as the effective system identifier if  the
              entity  is  an  entity  declared in a link type declaration whose link type name is
              name.

       NOTATION name sysid
              This specifies that sysid should be used as the effective system identifier  for  a
              notation  whose  name is name.  This is an extension to the SGML Open format.  This
              is relevant only with the -n option.

       OVERRIDE YES|NO
              This sets the overriding mode for entries up to the next occurrence of OVERRIDE  or
              the  end  of  the catalog entry file.  At the beginning of a catalog entry file the
              overriding mode will be NO.  A PUBLIC, ENTITY, DOCTYPE, LINKTYPE or NOTATION  entry
              with  an overriding mode of YES will be used whether or not the external identifier
              has an explicit system identifier; those with an overriding  mode  of  NO  will  be
              ignored  if  external  identifier  has  an  explicit system identifier.  This is an
              extension to the SGML Open format.

       SYSTEM sysid1 sysid2
              This specifies that sysid2 should be used as the effective system identifier if the
              system  identifier  specified  in  the  external identifier was sysid1.  This is an
              extension to the SGML Open format.

       SGMLDECL sysid
              This specifies that if the document does not contain an SGML declaration, the  SGML
              declaration in sysid should be implied.

       DOCUMENT sysid
              This specifies that the document entity is sysid.  This entry is used only with the
              -C option.

       CATALOG sysid
              This specifies that sysid is the system identifier of an additional  catalog  entry
              file  to  be read after this one.  Multiple CATALOG entries are allowed and will be
              read in order.  This is an extension to the SGML Open format.

       The delimiters can be omitted from the sysid provided it does not contain any white space.
       Comments are allowed between parameters delimited by -- as in SGML.

       The  environment  variable SGML_CATALOG_FILES contains a list of catalog entry files.  The
       list is separated by colons under Unix and by semi-colons  under  MSDOS.   These  will  be
       searched  after  any  catalog  entry  files  specified  using the -m option, and after the
       catalog entry file called catalog in the same place  as  the  document  entity.   If  this
       environment  variable is not set, then a system dependent list of catalog entry files will
       be used.  In fact catalog entry files are not restricted to being files:  the  name  of  a
       catalog entry file is interpreted as a system identifier.

       A  match  in one catalog entry file will take precedence over any match in a later catalog
       entry file.  A match in a catalog entry file for a SYSTEM entry will take precedence  over
       a  match  in  the  same file for a PUBLIC, ENTITY, DOCTYPE, LINKTYPE or NOTATION entry.  A
       match in a catalog entry file for a PUBLIC entry will take precedence over a match in  the
       same file for an ENTITY, DOCTYPE, LINKTYPE or NOTATION entry.

   System declaration
       The system declaration for nsgmls is as follows:

                               SYSTEM "ISO 8879:1986"
                                       CHARSET
       BASESET  "ISO 646-1983//CHARSET
                 International Reference Version (IRV)//ESC 2/5 4/0"
       DESCSET  0 128 0
       CAPACITY PUBLIC  "ISO 8879:1986//CAPACITY Reference//EN"
                                      FEATURES
       MINIMIZE DATATAG NO        OMITTAG  YES     RANK     YES   SHORTTAG YES
       LINK     SIMPLE  YES 65535 IMPLICIT YES     EXPLICIT YES 1
       OTHER    CONCUR  NO        SUBDOC   YES 100 FORMAL   YES
       SCOPE    DOCUMENT
       SYNTAX   PUBLIC  "ISO 8879:1986//SYNTAX Reference//EN"
       SYNTAX   PUBLIC  "ISO 8879:1986//SYNTAX Core//EN"
                                      VALIDATE

                GENERAL YES       MODEL    YES     EXCLUDE  YES   CAPACITY NO
                NONSGML YES       SGML     YES     FORMAL   YES
                                        SDIF
                PACK    NO        UNPACK   NO

       The limit for the SUBDOC parameter is memory dependent.

       Any legal concrete syntax may be used.

    declaration
       If the  declaration is omitted and there is no applicable SGMLDECL entry in a catalog, the
       following declaration will be implied:

                           <!SGML "ISO 8879:1986"
                                   CHARSET
       BASESET  "ISO 646-1983//CHARSET
                 International Reference Version (IRV)//ESC 2/5 4/0"
       DESCSET    0  9 UNUSED
                  9  2  9
                 11  2 UNUSED
                 13  1 13
                 14 18 UNUSED
                 32 95 32
                127  1 UNUSED
       CAPACITY PUBLIC    "ISO 8879:1986//CAPACITY Reference//EN"
       SCOPE    DOCUMENT
       SYNTAX
       SHUNCHAR CONTROLS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
                18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 127 255
       BASESET  "ISO 646-1983//CHARSET International Reference Version
                 (IRV)//ESC 2/5 4/0"
       DESCSET  0 128 0
       FUNCTION RE                    13
                RS                    10
                SPACE                 32
                TAB       SEPCHAR     9
       NAMING   LCNMSTRT  ""
                UCNMSTRT  ""
                LCNMCHAR  "-."
                UCNMCHAR  "-."
                NAMECASE  GENERAL     YES
                          ENTITY      NO
       DELIM    GENERAL   SGMLREF
                SHORTREF  SGMLREF
       NAMES    SGMLREF
       QUANTITY SGMLREF
                ATTCNT    99999999
                ATTSPLEN  99999999
                DTEMPLEN  24000
                ENTLVL    99999999
                GRPCNT    99999999
                GRPGTCNT  99999999
                GRPLVL    99999999
                LITLEN    24000
                NAMELEN   99999999
                PILEN     24000
                TAGLEN    99999999
                TAGLVL    99999999
                                  FEATURES
       MINIMIZE DATATAG   NO
                OMITTAG   YES
                RANK      YES
                SHORTTAG  YES
       LINK     SIMPLE    YES 1000
                IMPLICIT  YES
                EXPLICIT  YES 1
       OTHER    CONCUR    NO
                SUBDOC    YES 99999999
                FORMAL    YES
                                APPINFO NONE>
       with the exception that all characters that are neither significant not  shunned  will  be
       assigned to DATACHAR.

       A  character  in  a  base  character  set  is  described  either by giving its number in a
       universal character set, or by specifying a  minimum  literal.   The  constraints  on  the
       choice  of  universal  character  set are that characters that are significant in the SGML
       reference concrete syntax must be in the universal character set and must  have  the  same
       number  in  the  universal  character  set  as  in  ISO 646 and that each character in the
       character set must be represented by exactly one number; that  character  numbers  in  the
       range 0 to 31 and 127 to 159 are control characters (for the purpose of enforcing SHUNCHAR
       CONTROLS).  It is recommended that ISO 10646 (Unicode) be used as the universal  character
       set,  except  in environments where the normal document character sets are large character
       set which cannot be compactly described in terms of ISO 10646.  The public identifier of a
       base  character  set  can be associated with an entity that describes it by using a PUBLIC
       entry in the catalog entry file.  The entity must be a fragment  of  an  SGML  declaration
       consisting  of  the portion of a character set description, following the DESCSET keyword,
       that is, it must be a sequence of character descriptions, where each character description
       specifies  a  described  character number, the number of characters and either a character
       number in the universal character set, a minimum literal or the keyword UNUSED.  Character
       numbers in the universal character set can be as big as 99999999.

       In  addition  nsgmls has built in knowledge of a few character sets.  These are identified
       using the designating sequence  in  the  public  identifier.   The  following  designating
       sequences are recognized:

       Designating       ISO         Minimum      Number
         Escape      Registration   Character       of             Description
        Sequence        Number       Number     Characters
       ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       ESC 2/5 4/0        -             0          128       full set of ISO 646 IRV
       ESC 2/8 4/0        2             0          128       G0 set of ISO 646 IRV
       ESC 2/8 4/2        6             0          128       G0 set of ASCII
       ESC 2/1 4/0        1             0           32       C0 set of ISO 646

       The  graphic character sets do not strictly include C0 and C1 control character sets.  For
       convenience, nsgmls augments the graphic  character  sets  with  the  appropriate  control
       character sets.

       It  is  not  necessary for every character set used in the SGML declaration to be known to
       nsgmls provided that characters in the document character set that are significant both in
       the  reference  concrete  syntax  and in the described concrete syntax are described using
       known base character sets and that  characters  that  are  significant  in  the  described
       concrete  syntax  are  described  using  the  same base character sets or the same minimum
       literals in both the document character set description and the syntax reference character
       set description.

       The  public  identifier for a public concrete syntax can be associated with an entity that
       describes using a PUBLIC entry in the catalog entry file.  The entity must be  a  fragment
       of  an  SGML  declaration  consisting  of  a concrete syntax description starting with the
       SHUNCHAR keyword as in an SGML declaration.  The entity can also make use of the following
       extensions:

              An added function can be expressed as a parameter literal instead of a name.

              The  replacement  for  a  reference  reserved  name can be expressed as a parameter
              literal instead of a name.

              The LCNMSTRT, UCNMSTRT, LCNMCHAR and UCNMCHAR keywords may each be followed by more
              than  one parameter literal.  A sequence of parameter literals has the same meaning
              as a single parameter literal whose content is the concatenation of the content  of
              each  of  the  literals  in  the sequence.  This extension is useful because of the
              restriction on the length of a parameter literal in the  SGML  declaration  to  240
              characters.

              The  total  number  of characters specified for UCNMCHAR or UCNMSTRT may exceed the
              total number of characters specified for LCNMCHAR or LCNMSTRT  respectively.   Each
              character  in UCNMCHAR or UCNMSTRT which does not have a corresponding character in
              the same position in LCNMCHAR  or  LCNMSTRT  is  simply  assigned  to  UCNMCHAR  or
              UCNMSTRT without making it the upper-case form of any character.

              A parameter following any of LCNMSTRT, UCNMSTRT, LCNMCHAR and UCNMCHAR keywords may
              be followed by the name token ...  and another parameter  literal.   This  has  the
              same  meaning  as  the  two  parameter literals with a parameter literal in between
              containing in order each character whose number is greater than the number  of  the
              last character in the first parameter literal and less than the number of the first
              character in the second parameter literal.  A parameter  literal  must  contain  at
              least one character for each ...  to which it is adjacent.

              A  number may be used as a parameter following the LCNMSTRT, UCNMSTRT, LCNMCHAR and
              UCNMCHAR keywords or as a delimiter in the DELIM section with the same meaning as a
              parameter literal containing just a numeric character reference with that number.

              The parameters following the LCNMSTRT, UCNMSTRT, LCNMCHAR and UCNMCHAR keywords may
              be omitted.  This has the same meaning as specifying an empty parameter literal.

              Within the specification of the short reference  delimiters,  a  parameter  literal
              containing exactly one character may be followed by the name token ...  and another
              parameter literal containing exactly one character.  This has the same meaning as a
              sequence  of  parameter literals one for each character number that is greater than
              or equal to the number of the character in the first  parameter  literal  and  less
              than or equal to the number of the character in the second parameter literal.

       The  public  identifier  for  a  public capacity set can be associated with an entity that
       describes using a PUBLIC entry in the catalog entry file.  The entity must be  a  fragment
       of an SGML declaration consisting of a sequence of capacity names and numbers.

   Output format
       The output is a series of lines.  Lines can be arbitrarily long.  Each line consists of an
       initial command character and one or more arguments.  Arguments are separated by a  single
       space,  but when a command takes a fixed number of arguments the last argument can contain
       spaces.  There is  no  space  between  the  command  character  and  the  first  argument.
       Arguments can contain the following escape sequences.

       \\     A \.

       \n     A record end character.

       \|     Internal SDATA entities are bracketed by these.

       \nnn   The character whose code is nnn octal.

       A  record  start  character  will  be represented by \012.  Most applications will need to
       ignore \012 and translate \n into newline.

       \#n;   The character whose number is n in decimal.  n can have any number of digits.  This
              is  used for characters that are not representable by the encoding translation used
              for output (as specified by the NSGML_CODE environment variable).  This  will  only
              occur with the multibyte version of nsgmls.

       The possible command characters and arguments are as follows:

       (gi    The  start  of  an element whose generic identifier is gi.  Any attributes for this
              element will have been specified with A commands.

       )gi    The end of an element whose generic identifier is gi.

       -data  Data.

       &name  A reference to an external data entity name; name will have been defined using an E
              command.

       ?pi    A processing instruction with data pi.

       Aname val
              The  next  element to start has an attribute name with value val which takes one of
              the following forms:

              IMPLIED
                     The value of the attribute is implied.

              CDATA data
                     The attribute is character data.  This is used for attributes whose declared
                     value is CDATA.

              NOTATION nname
                     The  attribute  is  a  notation name; nname will have been defined using a N
                     command.  This is used for attributes whose declared value is NOTATION.

              ENTITY name...
                     The attribute is a list of general entity names.  Each entity name will have
                     been  defined using an I, E or S command.  This is used for attributes whose
                     declared value is ENTITY or ENTITIES.

              TOKEN token...
                     The attribute is a list of  tokens.   This  is  used  for  attributes  whose
                     declared value is anything else.

              ID token
                     The  attribute  is an ID value.  This will be output only if the -oid option
                     is specified.  Otherwise TOKEN will be used for ID values.

       Dename name val
              This is the same as the A command, except that it specifies a data attribute for an
              external  entity  named  ename.   Any D commands will come after the E command that
              defines the entity to which they apply,  but  before  any  &  or  A  commands  that
              reference the entity.

       atype name val
              The  next element to start has a link attribute with link type type, name name, and
              value val, which takes the same form as with the A command.

       Nnname nname.  Define a notation.  This command will be preceded by a  p  command  if  the
              notation  was declared with a public identifier, and by a s command if the notation
              was declared with a system identifier.   If  the  -n  option  was  specified,  this
              command  will  also  be  preceded  by  an  f  command  giving the system identifier
              generated by the entity manager (unless it was unable to generate one).  A notation
              will  only  be defined if it is to be referenced in an E command or in an A command
              for an attribute with a declared value of NOTATION.

       Eename typ nname
              Define an external data entity named ename with type typ (CDATA,  NDATA  or  SDATA)
              and  notation not.  This command will be preceded by an f command giving the system
              identifier generated by the entity manager (unless it was unable to generate  one),
              by  a  p  command  if  a  public identifier was declared for the entity, and by a s
              command if a system identifier was declared for the entity.   not  will  have  been
              defined using a N command.  Data attributes may be specified for the entity using D
              commands.  If the -oentity option is not specified, an external  data  entity  will
              only  be defined if it is to be referenced in a & command or in an A command for an
              attribute whose declared value is ENTITY or ENTITIES.

       Iename typ text
              Define an internal data entity named ename with type typ and entity text text.  The
              typ  will be CDATA or SDATA unless the -oentity option was specified, in which case
              it can also be PI or TEXT (for an  text entity).  If the  -oentity  option  is  not
              specified, an internal data entity will only be defined if it is referenced in an A
              command for an attribute whose declared value is ENTITY or ENTITIES.

       Sename Define a subdocument entity named ename.  This command will be  preceded  by  an  f
              command giving the system identifier generated by the entity manager (unless it was
              unable to generate one), by a p command if a public identifier was declared for the
              entity,  and by a s command if a system identifier was declared for the entity.  If
              the -oentity option is not specified, a subdocument entity will only be defined  if
              it  is referenced in a { command or in an A command for an attribute whose declared
              value is ENTITY or ENTITIES.

       Tename Define an external SGML text entity named ename.  This command will be preceded  by
              an  f  command giving the system identifier generated by the entity manager (unless
              it was unable to generate one), by a p command if a public identifier was  declared
              for  the  entity,  and  by  a s command if a system identifier was declared for the
              entity.  This command will be output only if the -oentity option is specified.

       ssysid This command applies to the next E, S, T or N command and specifies the  associated
              system identifier.

       ppubid This  command applies to the next E, S, T or N command and specifies the associated
              public identifier.

       fsysid This command applies to the next E, S, T or, if the  -n  option  was  specified,  N
              command  and  specifies  the system identifier generated by the entity manager from
              the specified external  identifier  and  other  information  about  the  entity  or
              notation.

       {ename The  start of the  subdocument entity ename; ename will have been defined using a S
              command.

       }ename The end of the  subdocument entity ename.

       Llineno file
       Llineno
              Set the current line number and filename.  The file argument  will  be  omitted  if
              only  the  line  number has changed.  This will be output only if the -l option has
              been given.

       #text  An APPINFO parameter of text was  specified  in  the   declaration.   This  is  not
              strictly  part  of the ESIS, but a structure-controlled application is permitted to
              act on it.  No # command will be output if APPINFO NONE was specified.  A # command
              will occur at most once, and may be preceded only by a single L command.

       C      This  command  indicates  that  the  document  was a conforming  document.  If this
              command is output, it will be the last command.  An  document is not conforming  if
              it references a subdocument entity that is not conforming.

ENVIRONMENT

       SP_BCTF
              If  this  is set to one of identity, utf-8, euc-jp and sjis, then that BCTF will be
              used as the default BCTF for everything (including file input, file output, message
              output, filenames and command line arguments).

SEE ALSO

       The  Handbook, Charles F. Goldfarb
       ISO   8879   (Standard   Generalized  Markup  Language),  International  Organization  for
       Standardization

       More complete HTML documentation can be found in: /usr/share/doc/sp/index.htm

BUGS

       Only with -t is all ESIS information for LINK is reported.

AUTHOR

       James Clark (jjc@jclark.com).

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