The Amsterdam SGML Parser

Note: This is the documentation that is supplied with the Amsterdam SGML parser, crudely converted to HTML. As with most public SGML packages I have encountered, the documentation is not terribly helpful.

User Documentation

User manual supplied with the Amsterdam Parser distribution. Not as useful as you might want.

Technical Documentation

Descriptions of all C functions used in the package. Generally, not very useful.

LLgen man page

LLgen is an LL(1) parser generator used by the Amsterdam Parser to generate initial stages of the document parser.

Amsterdam Parser Author:

Jos Warmer, Sylvia van Egmond
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Copyright 1987 by Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Version 3.0 B, april 30, 1990.

• Introduction to ASP
• Briefly how to use it (invalid for WPI)
• The lexical analyzer
• Generating file for the document parser
• The markup-replacement back end for ASP

• att_chk: Attribute-value checking
• att_gen: Attribute list generation
• att_par: Manipulate attribute information in the document parser
• capacity: Counting capacity points
• charclas: Functions for character class determination
• conc_syn.html: Concrete syntax definition
• context: Calculation of status of SGML elements
• doc_pars: Document parser
• elem_stk: Stacks for inclusion, exclusion and open elements
• element: Element definitions
• empty: Calculate whether node can be empty
• entity: Entity manager and extern identifiers
• file_in: Insert input from a file in the input stream
• gen_code: Generating LLgen code for parsing the document
• gen_incl: Generate inclusion parser
• gen_tagl: Generate list containing content model information
• gen_tags: Generate table containing information about tags, attributes, etc.
• generate.html: Generation parser
• group.html: Functions for working with group-structure (double linked list)
• hash_gen.html: Generic hash table
• in.html: Input manager
• incl.html: Inclusions parser
• keywords.html: Definition of SGML keywords
• mode_stk.html: Recognition modes stack
• modes.html: Recognition modes
• myerror.html: Routine for correcting errors in parsing a document
• node.html: Tree representation of a sgml gramma
• notation.html: Notation storage and retrieval
• omitstrt.html: Procedures for determining whether a starttag may be omitted
• out.html: All output for the document parser goes through this module
• rep_pars.html: Parser for replacement file
• replacedoc.html: Replacements for starttags and endtags
• report.html: Error messages report
• set.html: Set operations
• sgmlproc.html: Checking SGML declaration
• shortref.html: Short references
• stackgen.html: Generic stack operations
• startend.html: Routines handle starttag and endtag during parsing of the document
• str_in.html: Insert input from a character string in the input stream
• symtable.html: Symbol table
• taglist.html: Return information about element's content model
• tags.html: Return values from parserinfo table
• token_in.html: Insert tokens from a token array in the input stream
• tools.html: General procedures