


RAST(1)                                                   RAST(1)


NAME
       rast - reference application for SGML testing

       An  System Conforming to
       International Standard ISO 8879 --
       Standard Generalized Markup Language

SYNOPSIS
       rast [ -ewx ] [ -ccatalog_file ] filename...  rastfile

DESCRIPTION
       Rast is an implementation of the Reference Application for
       SGML Testing defined by ISO/IEC 13673:1995 (actually  this
       isn't  quite  an  IS yet; this implements the Intermediate
       Editor's Draft of 1994/08/29, with  changes  to  implement
       ISO/IEC  JTC1/SC18/WG8 N1777).  Rast parses the SGML docu-
       ment contained in filename...  and outputs to rastfile the
       RAST  result  (this  is  a representation of the ESIS of a
       document).

       For more information about the underlying SGML parser  and
       entity manager, see nsgmls(1).

       The following options are available:

       -cfile Use the catalog entry file file.

       -e     Describe open entities in error messages.

       -w     Give warnings.

       -x     Do not give an error when a character that is not a
              significant character  in  the  reference  concrete
              syntax occurs in a literal in the SGML declaration.
              This may be  useful  in  conjunction  with  certain
              buggy test suites.

AUTHOR
       James Clark (jjc@jclark.com).

SEE ALSO
       nsgmls(1)















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