SGML confirming?

Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@www10.w3.org)
Mon, 17 Apr 95 15:18:52 EDT

Arthur van Hoff writes:
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> Has anyone succeeded in using an SGML compliant parser to parse
> HTML2 and HTML3 documents?

Yes. I do it as a matter of routine by now.

> If so, could you please point me to it?

Everything you need to run SGMLS (a conforming SGML system) on
HTML documents is available at:

http://www.hal.com/~markg/HaLSoft/html-check/index.html

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> I'm trying to use a DTD driven SGML parser to read HTML documents but I
> am finding that the HTML standard has diverged significantly from the
> SGML standard.

Could you be more specific? Do you mean that the HTML spec actually
conflicts with the SGML standard, or that lots of documents out
there are not conforming SGML documents?

Dan