What is SGMLS.pm?

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# What is `SGMLS.pm`?

`SGMLS.pm` is an extensible `perl5` class library for parsing the output from James Clark's popular `sgmls` and `nsgmls` parsers, available on the Internet at `ftp://jclark.com`. This is not a complete system for translating documents written the the Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) into other formats, but it can easily form the basis of such a system (for a simple example, see the `sgmlspl` program included in this package).

The library recognises four basic types of SGML objects: the element, the attribute, the notation, and the entity; each of these is a fully-developed class with methods for accessing important information.

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