RE: [docbook-apps] docbook sgml Java parsers ?

["Peter Ring" <PRI@magnus.dk>]

Now defunct Copernican Solutions Incorporated developed a Java-based SGML (actually HyTime, I believe) processor around 1997. The founder, R. Alexander Milowski, has a website at http://www.milowski.com/.

I'd also search Java project sites, e.g. http://java.net/ and software repositories such as Freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=sgml&section=projects.

kind regards
Peter Ring

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary [mailto:fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp]
> Sent: 7. februar 2007 09:31
> To: DocBook Apps
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] docbook sgml Java parsers ?
> 
> 
> 
> On 7 févr. 07, at 17:10, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> 
> > Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> was heard to say:
> >
> >> Are there any DocBook sgml parsers in Java, possible GPL 
> compatible ?
> >>
> >
> > If you're looking for a general-purpose SGML parser implemented in  
> > Java, the
> > answer is probably no. The Cover pages
> > (http://xml.coverpages.org/publicSW.html#parsers) do not list one.  
> > The page was
> > last updated in 2002, but I consider it unlikely that 
> someone wrote  
> > a SGML
> > parser at a time when everyone was busy doing XML.
> >
> > However, if you're looking for a way to parse DocBook documents in  
> > Java one way
> > or another, consider transforming the SGML documents to XML (e.g.  
> > by means of
> > osx). You could then use any Java XML parser.
> 
> Markus,
> 
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> 
> The application that would use this parser is OmegaT, a Java 
> computer  
> aided translation tool. It basically gets the translatable contents  
> from the source texts (in the supported formats, which include  
> DocBook xml) and displays them for translation. The translator types  
> the translation and the application builds a translated text by  
> filling the file "skeleton" with the new contents.
> 
> We used to have a very loose parser for HTML, but then, when we  
> decided to support XML formats like DocBook, ODF, XHTML etc we were  
> faced with the necessity to use a proper parser. So now we have  
> support for a variety of XML based formats and that is not a problem.
> 
> But when DocBook  sgml is used as source file, the XML parser does  
> not accept it.
> 
> Also, it is important to have the file skeleton correctly memorized  
> so that the target file is also correct DocBook sgml, so converting  
> sgml to xml is not an option. We need to be able to output the  
> original parsed sgml
> 
> Not being a programmer myself (I am only on this list because I am  
> writting the user manual in DocBook) what I am writing may not  
> exactly reflect the technical issues we are facing, except for the  
> fact that currently we can't parse DocBook sgml.
> 
> Any pointer would be appreciated.
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary
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