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Information From Press Release About SGML
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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:04:11 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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WORDPERFECT CORPORATION ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT FOR THE SGML
OREM, Utah, March 31, 1992
WordPerfect Corporation today announces the development of WordPerfect MarkUp, a conversion process between WordPerfect's 5.1 file format and SGML.

WordPerfect has been developing for the SGML for one year and plans to take the product into beta in May.

"WordPerfect MarkUp is designed to be the best bridge possible between WordPerfect word processing and the SGML format. This product will satisfy most customers' SGML requirements and allow them to continue using the WordPerfect 5.1 word processor," said Dallas Powell, Development Director for WordPerfect MarkUp.

The conversion process between WordPerfect's 5.1 file format and SGML incudes various options. A pre-tagging process can be executed that can run in a batch mode or interactively. It inserts into WordPerfect 5.1 document tags based on a set of user defined rules. The effectiveness of the pre-tagger is dependent on the consistency of the WordPerfect format codes in the document. No SGML attributes are inserted in the pre-tagging process.

Other options include a simple editing environment that allows menu driven tag selection and tag attributes to be inserted into the WordPerfect document. This includes a look ahead or "what's valid next" feature for the tag selection.

An interactive validator is also included that is not restricted to only public document type definitions (DTD) but can interpret a user defined DTD. It is based on the reference concrete syntax and can deal with OMITTAG but currently requires the DTD to be in one ASCII text file. Error listing is also an option, allowing the user to jump to the error location in the file.

Another option is the ability to save the file in a WordPerfect 5.1 file format or as an SGML ASCII text file. The WordPerfect 5.1 file can be retrieved back into the standard WordPerfect 5.1 word processor so the user can print, spell check, etc. The tag functions are not deleted when the file is retrieved in the WordPerfect 5.1 editing environment but will show up as unknown codes when viewed in the reveal codes window of WordPerfect.

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