debian man page for sgmlpre

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NAME
       sgmlpre - handle SGML conditionalization for SGML-tools

SYNOPSIS
       sgmlpre [options] ...

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page  documents briefly the sgmlpre commands.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page for sgmlpre.

       sgmlpre is a program that handle SGML conditionalization for SGML-tools

       It is used by other programs in sgml-tools (v1), and usually normal user does not need to use this program directly by himself.

       Following is quoted from the header in the source code.

       (Begin Quotes)

	      sgmlpre -- handle SGML conditionalization for SGML-tools by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>, 3 Nov 1997

	      Filter SGML according to conditionalizing markup.  Argument/value pairs from the command line are matched against the attributes	of
	      <#if>  and <#unless> tags.  Spans between <#if>/</#if> are passed through unaltered if there is no attribute mismatch; spans between
	      <#unless></#unless> are passed if there is at least one attribute mismatch.  An attribute mismatch happens  if an  attribute  occurs
	      in  both the command-line arguments and the tag, but the values do not match.  Value matching is by string equality, except that "|"
	      is interpreted as an alternation character.  Even if a span is not passed through, its newlines are (this to avoid  messing  up  the
	      line  numbers in error messages).

	      This  lexer  requires flex.  Limitations; attribute names may only be 256 chars long, values may be only 16384 (YY_BUF_SIZE) charac-
	      ters long.  Doesn't do checking that only </if> matches <if> and </unless> matches <unless> (that would need a stack  and  introduce
	      another limit).

       (End Quotes)

OPTIONS
       The program does not support normal command line options.

SEE ALSO
       For a complete description, see the header in the source archive.

AUTHOR
       sgmlpre was written by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>, 3 Nov 1997.

       This manual page was written by Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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