Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!rutgers!okstate!ericc From: ericc@a.cs.okstate.edu (Eric Cloninger) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: SGML Lex/Yacc Summary Keywords: SGML, Lex, Yacc Message-ID: <5113@okstate.UUCP> Date: 11 Nov 89 18:26:24 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater Lines: 115 This is a summary of the responses I received following my posting several weeks ago concerning the existence of an SGML Lex/Yacc spec. Several persons e-mailed me for my results so here they are. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "John E. Koontz" To: ericc@a.cs.okstate.edu Subject: Parsing SGML Keywords: SGML,parsing For what it is worth, ArborText has a WYSIWYG word processor/publisher on Sun equipment that can import TeX and SGML. Somehow they must parse SGML. Their address is ArborText, Inc., 535 West William St., Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI 48103. My only connection with this product is having read some of the advertising copy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 89 13:35:00 MET From: Jos Warmer To: ericc@a.cs.okstate.edu Cc: jos@cs.vu.nl, sylvia@cs.vu.nl Subject: Re: SGML Lex/Yacc Specs Wanted In answer to your question about LEX/YACC specifications for SGML. It is impossible to spefify SGML in LEX and YACC. SGML contains many aspects than you can not specify in lex an dacc. We have implemented an SGML Parser, so we should know. At the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, we have developed an SGML parser. This parser is perfectly suitable for converting SGML documents to some other format. This parser is available to universities and educational institutions, for non- commercial use, for $500. For commercial companies, it is available at a much higher price. The Amsterdam SGML Parser comes with complete source code and technical documentation. It is developed under SUN Unix, and has been ported to VAX/VMS for use within Elsevier Science Publishers. It is written in K&R C and easily portable to other unix-flavors or any system with decent C compiler and linked. A paper describing SGML and the parser will appear in the december issue of EP-ODD (Electronic Publishing). If you are interested, we will send you a copy of this paper and the contract for obtaining the parser. Jos Warmer jos@cs.vu.nl ...uunet!mcvax!cs.vu.nl!jos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 89 21:15:44 EST From: levisonm@qucis.queensu.ca To: ericc@a.cs.okstate.edu Subject: SGML I have written a program that parses SGML and converts the document into the format we need for our database. The compnay which supplied us with the parsing routines is called Exoterica Software Exoterica Corporation 383 Parkdale Avenue, Suite 406 Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4R4 Canada Phone (613) 722-7100 Fax (613) 722-5706 I have been using this product for 20 months and I am quite satisfied with the results. I didn't purchase myself so I have no idea about cost. My manual has confidential stamped all over it so I think that is all I can safely say. My only connection with Exoterica is that I have used and enjoyed their product. Good Luck Mark Levison levisonm@qucis.queensu.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------- And finally... After posting my original message, I received a phone call from a gentleman representing SoftQuad, a company in Toronto, I believe (Excuse me for not remembering, I'm at home now). Apparently they represnt a company that has created one of a handful of SGML parsers. They also create a Macintosh SGML editor that I remember being reviewed with good remarks in MacWorld or MacUser. They monitor UseNet and any posting to this newsgroup concerning them would probably result in an informative phone call within 48 hours. I have no association with SoftQuad other than that I was extremely pleased with the response I received from them and the information they were willing to impart. Thanks again to one and all who answered my queries. Eric Cloninger ========================================================================= UUCP : {cbatt,cbosgd,ihnp4,rutgers,seismo,uiucdcs}!okstate!ericc Internet : ericc@a.cs.okstate.edu USnail : 110 W. Third St, Stillwater, OK 74075 AT & T : (405) 377-0880 =========================================================================