Free HTML/SGML tools

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SIMPLE AND FREE HTML/SGML SOFTWARE TOOLS

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dehtml: HTML command stripper (e.g. prior to spell checking).
HTML prettyprinter in awk: To see sample output of the prettyprinter, turn on View Source in your WWW client viewer to show how this page is formatted.
HTML prettyprinter in lex and C. Up to version 0.05, the capabilities of the two prettyprinters tracked one another, but the awk version is now frozen at that level. This version is much faster, since it is written in a compiled language, and it has acquired many new features that are absent from the old awk prototype. The distribution files are available in three popular formats, and include source, documentation, test suite, and also an IBM PC executable with build and test scripts.
FTP index file to HTML converter: To see sample output of the converter, select test01.index to see the original index, and then select test01.html to see what the formatted result looks like from your WWW client. Turn on View Source in your WWW client viewer to show what the raw HTML code looks like.
Notes and pointers about html-check and sgmls for grammatically-rigorous, and automatic, validation of HTML files.
Notes and pointers about James Clark's SP 0.4, SP 1.0.1k SP 1.3 and SP 1.3.4 a new implementation of SGML tools, including nsgmls (an sgmls -compatible validating SGML parser) and spam (an SGML normalizer).
UNIX Makefile for maintaining a personal public_html directory.
BibTeX bibliography on SGML and HTML.
html2ps, an HTML to PostScript converter.

Comments, and reports of errata or bugs, are welcome via e-mail to the author, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe(at)math.utah.edu>. In your report, please supply the full document URL, and the title and Last update time stamp recorded near the top of the document.

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