SGML: ANNOUNCE: MetaMorphosis-free Version 2.1

SGML: ANNOUNCE: MetaMorphosis-free Version 2.1


Subject: ANNOUNCE: MetaMorphosis-free Version 2.1
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 12:47:38 +0200
From: Klaus Fenchel <kfen@ovidius.com>
--------------------------------------------------------------- Ovidius GmbH announces the release of MetaMorphosis-free Version 2.1 MetaMorphosis-free (MM-free) is the free version of MetaMorphosis. Use of MM-free is governed by a special license (see http://www.ovidius.com/mm-flic.html) MM-free is a functionally unrestricted version of MetaMorphosis. MM-free IS AVAILABLE ONLY FOR THE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM. There are some changes with respect to the commercial version. For details see http://www.ovidius.com/mmf-read.html MetaMorphosis is an SGML tree transformer which can be used to transform SGML document instances to various output formats. It requires the installation of nsgmls which is not part of the MM-free distribution. Some of the more important features of MM are: * MM works always in tree mode; this allows unlimited context access during transformation * MM is target-driven; i.e. an MM program specifies directly the structure of the target tree * MM has a declarative query and transformation language This is a selection of some of the new features in Version 2.1: * handling of SDATA entities and PIs as nodes * support of indices; an index can hold anything which can be the result of a MM query (strings, attributes, nodes, ...) indices can be used to access large sets of data very fast * built-in pacing mode allows to interactively step through transformations, move around in the tree, etc. * the script compiler and many functions have been optimized; they perform now twice as fast as before For more information see http://www.ovidius.com/mm-free.html There is an online manual (http://www.ovidius.com/mmmanual/toc.html) and an online tutorial (http://www.ovidius.com/mmtut/toc.html); both have been converted from SGML to HTML by means of an MM script. You can download the software and PostScript versions of the manual and the tutorial. Note: I have been informed that there are problems with the PostScript files (printing, or displaying in Ghostview, or both). I will try to fix this in the near future. If you have problems send mail to info@ovidius.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- OVIDIUS Gesellschaft fuer elektronisches Mail: info@ovidius.com Publizieren mbH WWW: http://www.ovidius.com --------------------------------------------------------------------