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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label SGML2TeX</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Conversion from SGML or HTML to TeX</h3>
-<p/>SGML is a very important system for document storage and interchange,
-but it has no formatting features; its companion ISO standard
-DSSSL
-(see <a href="http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/">http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/</a>) is designed for writing
-transformations and formatting,
-but this has not yet been widely implemented. Some SGML authoring
-systems (e.g., SoftQuad <i>Author/Editor</i>) have formatting
-abilities, and
-there are high-end specialist SGML typesetting systems (e.g., Miles33&#8217;s
-<i>Genera</i>). However, the majority of SGML users probably transform
-the source to an existing typesetting system when they want to print.
-TeX is a good candidate for this. There are three approaches to writing a
-translator:
-<ol>
-<li> Write a free-standing translator in the traditional way, with
- tools like <i>yacc</i> and <i>lex</i>; this is hard, in
- practice, because of the complexity of SGML.
-<li> Use a specialist language designed for SGML transformations; the
- best known are probably <i>Omnimark</i> and <i>Balise</i>.
- They are expensive, but powerful, incorporating SGML query and
- transformation abilities as well as simple translation.
-<li> Build a translator on top of an existing SGML parser. By far
- the best-known (and free!) parser is James Clark&#8217;s
- <i>nsgmls</i>, and this produces a much simpler output format,
- called ESIS, which can be parsed quite straightforwardly (one also
- has the benefit of an SGML parse against the DTD). Two
- good public domain packages use this method:
- <ul>
- <li>
-
- David Megginson&#8217;s
- <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/SGMLS"><i>sgmlspm</a></i>,
- written in <i>Perl</i> 5.
- <li>
-
- Joachim Schrod and Christine Detig&#8217;s
- <a href="ftp://ftp.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/text/sgml/stil"><i>STIL</a></i>,
- (&#8216;SGML Transformations in Lisp&#8217;).
- </ul>
- Both of these allow the user to write &#8216;handlers&#8217; for every SGML
- element, with plenty of access to attributes, entities, and
- information about the context within the document tree.
-<p/> If these packages don&#8217;t meet your needs for an average SGML
- typesetting job, you need the big commercial stuff.
-</ol>
-<p/>Since HTML is simply an example of SGML, we do not need a specific
-system for HTML. However, Nathan Torkington developed
-
-<i>html2latex</i> from the HTML parser in NCSA&#8217;s
-Xmosaic package.
-The program takes an HTML file and generates a LaTeX file from it.
-The conversion code is subject to NCSA restrictions, but the whole
-source is available on CTAN.
-<p/>Michel Goossens and Janne Saarela published a very useful summary of
-SGML, and of public domain tools for writing and manipulating it, in
-<i>TUGboat</i> 16(2).
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>html2latex source</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/html2latex.zip">support/html2latex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/html2latex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/html2latex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=SGML2TeX">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=SGML2TeX</a>
-</body>