RAST

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NAME

rast - translate output of sgmls to RAST format

SYNOPSIS

rast [ -ooutput_file ] [ input_file ]

DESCRIPTION

Rast translates the output of sgmls to the format of a RAST result. RAST is the Reference Application for SGML Testing defined in the Proposed American National Standard on Conformance Testing for Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) Systems (X3.190-199X). Rast reads from input_file or from standard input if input_file is not specified. It writes to output_file or to standard output if output_file is not specified; use of the -o option avoids the need for rast to use a temporary file.

Note that the -c option of sgmls can generate a capacity report in RACT format.

BUGS

Production [9] in clause 14.5.5 of the draft standard is clearly wrong; rast corrects it by appending `, LE'. An alternative way to correct it would be to delete the `,sEND-ENTITYs'.

In production [18] in clause 14.5.9, `markup data+' should be `markup data*' since internal sdata entities need not contain any characters (14.5.11), and markup data cannot be empty (14.5.9, 14.5.12).

The RAST result for the example in Annex B.4 is incorrect. The line G03-A1= should be immediately followed by a line !g03-e1!. (The problem with production [9] also applies to this example.)

Rast outputs a newline after #ERROR in order to avoid producing files with partial lines.