Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:19:02 +0100 From: Matthias Clasen <clasen@pong.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de> To: dssslist@mulberrytech.com Subject: OpenSP-1.5pre1 released
The OpenJade team has made a prerelease of OpenSP-1.5 available at:
ftp://openjade.sourceforge.net/pub/openjade/OpenSP-1.5pre1.tar.gz .
OpenSP is a variant of James Clark's SP SGML parser, maintained by the OpenJade team. See below for a list of changes in OpenSP compared to SP-1.3.4.
For more information on OpenSP and OpenJade, see:
http://openjade.sourceforge.net.
Please report any problems you encounter while building or using OpenSP-1.5pre1 on a Unix or Win32 platform to:
The OpenJade team
Changes in OpenSP 1.5pre1
More of Annex K supported: Common data attributes can now be specified in external entity declarations.
The architecture engine supports #MAPTOKEN.
The multibyte version of OpenSP now uses 32bit chars and supports the full UTF-16 range 0x0000-0x10ffff.
Changes in OpenSP 1.4
Support for the koi8-r (RFC 1489) encoding.
OpenSP now supports long cmdline options.
OpenSP is internationalized (currenly German and Swedish translations are provided).
New option -h or --help shows a list of all available options with descriptions.
New options -n and -x to see message numbers/relevant clauses with messages.
More of Annex K supported: SGML declarations on subdocs, DATA declared value for attributes, DTD data entities and DTD notations for doctypes, complete IMPLYDEF support, ENTITIES REF constraints, URN parsing. Many new -w flags.
DTDDECL supported.
New spcat cmdline interface to the catalog manager.
Matthias Clasen
Tel. 0761/203-5606
Email: clasen@mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
Mathematisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
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