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NAME

       sgml2xml-isoent - Convert SGML to XML with support for ISO entities

SYNOPSIS

       sgml2xml-isoent [sgml-document]

DESCRIPTION

       sgml2xml-isoent  converts  an  SGML  document to XML, with support for the ISO entities.  This is done by
       using sgml2xml(1) from the SP package (or osx(1) from the OpenSP package), and the  declaration  for  the
       XML  version  of  the ISO entities is added to the output.  This means that the output of this conversion
       should work as-is with any XML tool.

       This program is often used for processing SGML DocBook documents with  XML-based  tools.  In  particular,
       db2x_xsltproc(1)  calls  this program as part of its --sgml option. On the other hand, it is probably not
       helpful for migrating a source SGML  text  file  to  XML,  since  the  conversion  mangles  the  original
       formatting.

       Since  the  XML version of the ISO entities are referred to directly, not via a DTD, this tool also works
       with document types other than DocBook.

NOTES

       The ISO entities are referred using the public identifiers  ISO  8879:1986//ENTITIES//...//EN//XML.   The
       catalogs  used when parsing the converted document should resolve these entities to the appropriate place
       (on the local filesystem). If the entities are not resolved in the catalog, then the fallback is  to  get
       the entity files from the http://www.docbook.org/ Web site.

AUTHOR

       Steve Cheng <stevecheng@users.sourceforge.net>.

SEE ALSO

       sgml2xml(1), osx(1)