NAME

       sgmlspl - a simple post-processor for onsgmls/nsgmls

SYNOPSIS

       sgmlspl spec file

DESCRIPTION

       sgmlspl  is  a sample application to convert SGML documents to other formats by providing a specification
       file detailing exactly how to handle each  element,  external  data  entity,  subdocument  entity,  CDATA
       string, record end, SDATA string, and processing instruction.

       To  use  sgmlspl,  prepare  a specification file containing regular perl5 code. If the SGML document were
       named doc.sgml, the sgmlspl specification file were named, spec.pl, and the name of  the  new  file  were
       doc.latex, then use the following command in a Unix shell to convert the SGML document:

       onsgmls doc.sgml | sgmlspl spec.pl > doc.latex

       sgmlspl  will  pass any additional arguments on to the specification file, which can then process them in
       the regular perl5 fashion.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/sgmls-doc/sgmlspl/sgmlspl.html
              sgmlspl documentation in HTML format

       /usr/share/doc/sgmls-doc/SGMLSpm/sgmls.html
              SGMLS documentation in HTML format

       onsgmls(1)

AUTHOR

       Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org>

SGMLSPL                                         October 26, 1999                                      SGMLSPL(1)