Looking for SGML reader

[Ramon]

I am trying to install some software and it turns out that all of its
documentation is in SGML format.

Where can I get a SGML reader for Windows?

TIA,

-Ramon F Herrera

[Paulo Tibúrcio]

Post by Ramon
I am trying to install some software and it turns out that all of its
documentation is in SGML format.
Where can I get a SGML reader for Windows?

Your documentation must be in one of the applications of SGML such as
HTML, XML or DOCBOOK.

Please open one of the SGML files in a text editor and look for a line
that starts as

<!DOCTYPE $something ...

or

<!doctype $something ...

The '$something' is important, for it's the clue to the means of turning
the documentation into one in a more usable format.

As soon as you identify the $something, post you finding here so as to
get exactly the help you need.

[Ramon]

Thanks for your reply, Paulo.

This is what I found:

<!-- DOCTYPE Book SYSTEM "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd-4.2/docbook.dtd"
[ -->
<!DOCTYPE Book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"

-Ramon

[Paulo Tibúrcio]

Post by Ramon
Thanks for your reply, Paulo.
<!-- DOCTYPE Book SYSTEM "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd-4.2/docbook.dtd" [
-->
<!DOCTYPE Book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"
-Ramon

So your prospecs are fine. Docbook is a widespread source format that
allows you to get PDF, RTF, HTML and a lot more outputs from one source.

If you have a machine with Linux available, all you've got to do is to
search for programs that act as a filter from docbook to whatever
(docbook2* where * is one of : dvi , html , man , pdf , ps , rtf , tex ,
texi ; so that docbook2* converts your sgml documents into * documents).
This way you can convert your sgml sources into whatever may bext suit
you.

If you must rely on Windows, then the following links may be helpful:

- http://www.jclark.com/jade/
- http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/tools.html
and http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/
- http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/
(technical information on docbook)
-
http://www.google.com.br/search?hl=pt-BR&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=oasis+docbook&meta=
(Google search)

I'll post some links more when I find'em.

[TK]

Post by Ramon
I am trying to install some software and it turns out that all of its
documentation is in SGML format.
Where can I get a SGML reader for Windows?

Maybe try Doczilla (http://www.doczilla.com/) - I don't know how
natively it knows how to display Docbook documents, but it claims to be
a universal SGML parser/display tool based on the Mozilla project. That
might mean that you'd have to write your own Docbook frontend, but I
could imagine that something so widespread would already be supported.

[Peter Flynn]

Post by Ramon
I am trying to install some software and it turns out that all of its
documentation is in SGML format.
Where can I get a SGML reader for Windows?

There is an old free copy of the Synex browser on the CD with my book
"Understanding SGML and XML Tools" (Kluwer, 1988) but it would need a
Synex stylesheet for whatever DTD your documents use.

///Peter Flynn

[Paulo Tibúrcio]

Post by Peter Flynn
There is an old free copy of the Synex browser on the CD with my book
"Understanding SGML and XML Tools" (Kluwer, 1988) but it would need a
Synex stylesheet for whatever DTD your documents use.
///Peter Flynn

They still provide a viewer as demo at
http://www.synex.se