The Whirlwind Guide: SGML Tools and Vendors (19 January 95) ==================================================================== The purpose of this listing is to give a brief overview of SGML Tools currently available on the market. While we would like the list to be as comprehensive as possible, we are not interested in every piece of software that claims 'SGML compatibility'. The main criterion for inclusion is that the software incorporates some kind of SGML parsing capability, or that it is in some way specifically geared to handling SGML documents. (However, certain non-SGML products that have SGML conversion toolkits bundled with them are included in the Electronic delivery and Page layout categories.) Neither does this list necessarily cover every product from a particular vendor. Ancilliary products, such as application toolkits, DTD compilers and the like, are not included. The products in the list are arranged in a set of very broad categories that should not be taken too literally since no two tools have exactly the same functionality. (We could have carried on subdividing categories forever in order to express the finer distinctions, but we had to stop somewhere...) Bear in mind also that some products could have been listed under more than one category. There are bound to be some inaccuracies, for which we apologise in advance. Please send corrections and additions to the address below. Updated versions of this list will be posted periodically at ftp://ftp.falch.no/pub/SGML-Tools. Steve Pepper Falch Infotek A/S Postboks 130 Kalbakken N-0902 Oslo Norway Phone: +47-22 16 30 40 Fax: +47-22 16 23 50 1. By product category ---------------------- Supported platforms (where known) are shown in parentheses as D = MS-DOS I = IBM CMS/MVS M = Macintosh O = OS/2 U = UNIX V = DEC/VMS W = MS-Windows Document analysis/design tools - CADE Groupware (W) Microstar - Document Analyzer (U D) Avalanche - DTD Viewer (W) ZifTech - DTD2HTML (U) PD - DTDocumenter (U) SoftQuad - EasyDTD (D U) PD - NEAR & FAR (U W) Microstar - RulesBuilder (U W M) SoftQuad - SGML Companion (W) PublDev Conversion software - AAP2ISO (U W) NICE - Alchemy (W) Zandar - Balise (U D V) AIS - CoST: Copenhagen SGML Tool (U) PD - DynaTag (U W) EBT - EasyTag (W M O U) TetraSys - FastTAG (U W D) Avalanche - i2c (ISO/CALS table conversion) (U D) MID - Integrated Chameleon Architecture (U) PD - OmniMark (D I M O U V W) Exoterica - PowerPaste (U) Arbortext - qwertz/FORMAT (U) PD - Rainbow-makers (U D) PD - SGML Exportfilter for FrameBuilder (U) MID - SGML Hammer (U W) Avalanche - SGML2TeX (D) PD - SureSTYLE (W) Avalanche - TableTAG (U D) Unifilt - TagWrite (W) Zandar Databases - ActiveSearch (W) ActiveSystems - ActiveServer (U) ActiveSystems - Basis SGMLserver (U W V) IDI - Impact Search and Retrieval (U) Auto-Graphics - PAT (U) OpenText - SARA (SGML Aware Retrieval Application) (U W) BNC - SGML/Search (U) AIS - SGML/Store (U) AIS - SINDA (U) STEP Electronic delivery - DynaText (U W M) EBT - Folio VIEWS (W D M) Folio - Grif SGML ActiveViews (U W) Grif - Guide Professional Publisher (W) InfoAccess - HyperTag (W M O U) TetraSys - HyperWriter for SGML (D W) Ntergaid - Lector (U W) OpenText - OLIAS Browser (U) HaL - SGML Darc (U W) Synex - SoftQuad Explorer (W) SoftQuad - SoftQuad Panorama (W) SoftQuad - SuperBook System (U W M O) Bellcore - WorldView (U W) Interleaf HyTime engines - HyMinder (U D) TechnoTeacher Page layout - ADEPT Publisher (U W) ArborText - CAPS (U) XSoft - Corel Ventura (W) Corel - DL Composer (U) Datalogics - FrameBuilder (U W) Frame - Interleaf 5 SGML (U D) Interleaf - Parlance Publisher (U) Xyvision - SGML Enabler QuarkXTension (W M) SoftQuad Document management - DocMan (U) STEP - DynaBase Publishing Environment (U) EBT - Information Manager (U) Texcel - Life*CDM (U) Corena - Parlance Document Manager (U W) XyVision - PassagePRO (U) Passage - S4 (SGML Standard Support System) (M U W) Infrastructures - SGML Editorial System (U W) MID - SIM (Structured Information Manager) (U W) Ferntree - WorkSMART (U W M) InfoDesign Parsers - Amsterdam Parser (U) PD - ARC-SGML (D U M) PD - IBM SGML Translator (I) IBM - Mark-It (U D) SEMA - MarkMinder (U D) TechnoTeacher - SGML Kernel (D I M O U V W) Exoterica - sgmls (U D O I V) PD - SP (U D) PD - YASP (Yorktown SGML Parser) (U D O V I) PD Text editors - ADEPT Editor (U W) ArborText - Author/Editor (U W M) SoftQuad - EASE (E2S Advanced SGML Editor) (D) E2S - EditTime (W) Timelux - Extended SGML Structured Editor (W) Lexicon - Grif SGML Editor (U) Grif - Grif SGML Notes (W) Grif - HotMetal (U W) SoftQuad - InContext (W) InContext - Intellitag (U D) WordPerfect - PSGML (emacs mode) (U D) PD - SGML Smart Editor (U D W) Auto-Graphics - SGML Tag Wizard (W) NICE - SGML Tagger (D) OUP - WordPerfect SGML Edition for Windows (W) WordPerfect - Write-It (D) SEMA - WriterStation (D W O) Datalogics Various - CTI/Sema harmonised test suite (-) PD - SGML Conformance Test Suite (U D M) Exoterica - SGML World Tour (U W M) SoftQuad 2. By vendor ------------ Application category is shown in brackets as A = Document analysis/design C = Conversion software D = Database E = Electronic delivery H = HyTime engine L = Page layout software M = Document management P = Parser T = Text editor V = Various ActiveSystems 11 Holland Avenue, Suite 700 Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4S1 Canada Tel: +1 (613) 729-2043 Fax: +1 (613) 729-2874 - ActiveSearch - ActiveServer AIS Berger-Levrault 35, rue du Pont F-92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine France Tel: +33 (1) 46-40-84-00 Fax: +33 (1) 46-40-84-10 - Balise - SGML/Search - SGML/Store Arbortext Inc. 1000 Victors Way, Suite 400 Ann Arbor, MI 48108 USA Tel: +1 (313) 996-3566 Fax: +1 (313) 996-3573 - ADEPT Editor - ADEPT Publisher - PowerPaste Auto-Graphics, Inc. 3201 Temple Avenue Pomona, CA 91768 USA Tel: +1 (909) 595-7204 Fax: +1 (909) 595-3506 Email: info@auto-graphics.com - Impact Search and Retrieval - SGML Smart Editor Avalanche Development Co. 947 Walnut Street Boulder, CO 80302 USA Tel: +1 (303) 449-5032 Fax: +1 (303) 449-3246 Email: sales@avalanche.com - Document Analyzer - FastTAG - SGML Hammer - SureSTYLE Bellcore 8 Corporate Place - Room 3A184 Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA Tel: +1 (908) 699-5800 Fax: +1 (908) 336-2559 Email: ccl@bellcore.com - SuperBook System British National Corpus Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford, OX2 6NN United Kingdom Tel: +44 (865) 273280 Fax: +44 (865) 273275 Email: natcorp@vax.ox.ac.uk - SARA (SGML Aware Retrieval Application) Corel Corporation 1600 Carling Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8R7 Canada Tel: +1 (613) 728-8200 Fax: +1 (613) 728-9790 - Corel Ventura Corena A/S Askerveien 61 P.O.Box 470 N-1371 Asker Norway Tel: +47-66 79 45 00 Fax: +47-66 79 45 90 Email: toralf@corena.no - Life*CDM Datalogics, Inc. 441 West Huron Street Chicago, IL 60610 USA Tel: +1 (312) 266-3202 - DL Composer - WriterStation Expert Software Systems Building "de Schelde" Moutstraat 100 B-9000 Gent Belgium Tel: +32 91 21.03.83 Fax: +32 91 20.31.91 Email: e2s@e2s.be - EASE (E2S Advanced SGML Editor) Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. One Richmond Square Providence, RI 02906 USA Tel: +1 (401) 421-9550 Fax: +1 (401) 421-9551 - DynaBase Publishing Environment - DynaTag - DynaText Exoterica Corp. 1545 Carling Avenue, Suite 404 Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8P9 Canada Tel: +1 (613) 722-1700 Fax: +1 (613) 722-5706 Email: info@exoterica.com - OmniMark - SGML Conformance Test Suite - SGML Kernel

Ferntree Computer Corp. GPO Box 3000 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia Tel: +61 6-248-8488 Fax: +61 6-247-6773 Email: johncook@acslink.net.au - SIM (Structured Information Manager) Folio Corporation 2155 North Freedom Blvd. Suite 150 Provo, UT 84604 USA Tel: +1 (801) 344-3700 Fax: +1 (801) 229-6790 Email: sales@folio.com - Folio VIEWS Frame Technology Corp. 1010 Rincon Circle San Jose, CA 95131 USA Tel: +1 (408) 433-3311 - FrameBuilder Grif S.A. Immeuble "Le Florestan" 2, boulevard Vauban B.P. 266 F-78053 St. Quentin en Yvelines France Tel: +33 (1) 30-12-14-30 Fax: +33 (1) 30-64-06-46 - Grif SGML ActiveViews - Grif SGML Editor - Grif SGML Notes HaL Software Systems, Inc. 3006A Longhorn Blvd., Suite 113 Austin, TX 78758 USA Tel: +1 (512) 834-9962 Fax: +1 (512) 834-9963 Email: jps@hal.com - OLIAS Browser IBM Corp. 400 Columbus Avenue Valhalla, NY 10595 USA Tel: +1 (914) 749-3409 - IBM SGML Translator

Information Dimensions Inc. 5080 Tuttle Crossing Blvd Dublin, OH 43017-3569 USA Tel: +1 (614) 761-8083 Fax: +1 (614) 761-7290 - Basis SGMLserver InContext Corp. 2 St. Clair Ave. West, Suite 1701 Toronto M4V IL5 Canada Tel: +1 (416) 922-0087 Fax: +1 (416) 922-4282 - InContext InfoAccess Inc. 2800 156th Avenue SE Bellevue WA 98007 USA Tel: +1 (206) 747-3203 Fax: +1 (206) 641-9367 Email: guide@halcyon.com - Guide Professional Publisher InfoDesign Corporation Waterpark Place 10 Bay Street, Suite 610 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2R8 Canada Tel: +1 (416) 369-9125 Fax: +1 (416) 369-0042 Email: info@idc.com - WorkSMART Infrastructures for Information Inc. 330 Dupont, Suite 302 Toronto, Ontario M5R 1V9 Canada Tel: +1 (416) 920-6489 Fax: +1 (416) 920-6493 Email: i4i@i4i.org - S4 (SGML Standard Support System) Interleaf, Inc. Prospect Place 9 Hillside Avenue Waltham, MA 02154 USA Tel: +1 (617) 290-0710 Fax: +1 (617) 290-4943 - Interleaf 5 SGML - WorldView Lexicon Systems, Inc. 6165 Lehman Drive, Suite 204 Colorado Springs CO 80918 USA Tel: +1 (719) 593-8971 Fax: +1 (719) 593-9268 - Extended SGML Structured Editor Microstar Software Ltd. 34 Colonnade Rd N Nepean, Ontario K2E 7J6 Canada Tel: +1 (613) 727-5696 Fax: +1 (613) 727-9491 Email: cade@microstar.com - CADE Groupware - NEAR & FAR MID Information Logistics Group Ringstrasse 19 D-69115 Heidelberg Germany Tel: +49 6221-166091 Fax: +49 6221-23921 Email: post@mid-heidelberg.de - i2c (ISO/CALS table conversion) - SGML Editorial System - SGML Exportfilter for FrameBuilder NICE Technologies Chemin des Hutins Veraz F-01170 Gex France Tel: +33 50-42-49-40 Fax: +33 50-42-49-40 Email: evh@altern.com - AAP2ISO - SGML Tag Wizard Ntergaid, Inc. 60 Commerce Park Milford, CT 06460 USA Tel: +1 (203) 783-1280 Fax: +1 (203) 882-0850 Email: p00869@psilink.com - HyperWriter for SGML Open Text Corp. 180 King Street South, Suite 550 Waterloo, Ontario N2L 1P8 Canada Tel: +1 (519) 888-7111 Fax: +1 (519) 888-0677 - Lector - PAT Oxford University Press Walton Street Oxford OX2 6DP UK Tel: +44 (865) 267979 Fax: +44 (865) 267990 - SGML Tagger Passage Systems, Inc. 465 Fairchild Dr., Suite 201 Mt. View, CA 94043 USA Tel: +1 (415) 390-0911 - PassagePRO Public Domain ftp://ifi.uio.no/pub/SGML/ ftp://info.ex.ac.uk/pub/SGML/ ftp://th-darmstadt.de/pub/text/sgml/ - Amsterdam Parser

- ARC-SGML

- CoST: Copenhagen SGML Tool - CTI/Sema harmonised test suite - DTD2HTML - EasyDTD - Integrated Chameleon Architecture - PSGML (emacs mode) - qwertz/FORMAT - Rainbow-makers - SGML2TeX - sgmls

- SP

- YASP (Yorktown SGML Parser)

Publishing Development AB Torpvagen 10 S-175 43 Jarfalla Sweden Tel: +46 (8) 580-37579 Fax: +46 (8) 580-37579 Email: christian@pubdev.se - SGML Companion Sema Group AG Building Place du Champ de Mars 5 Bte 40 B-1050 Bruxelles Belgium Tel: +32 2 508 5323 Fax: +32 2 512 1499 - Mark-It

- Write-It SoftQuad Inc. 56 Aberfoyle Crescent, Suite 810 Toronto, Ontario M8X 2W4 Canada Tel: +1 (416) 239-4801 Fax: +1 (416) 239-7105 - Author/Editor - DTDocumenter - HotMetal - RulesBuilder - SGML Enabler QuarkXTension - SGML World Tour - SoftQuad Explorer - SoftQuad Panorama STEP Technologiepark Wurzburg-Rimpar Kettelerstrasse D-97222 Rimpar Germany Tel: +49-9365/8062-0 Fax: +49-9365/8062-66 Email: step@step.de - DocMan - SINDA Synex Information AB Kallforsv. 24 S-124 32 Bandhagen Sweden Email: haitto@nada.kth.se - SGML Darc TechnoTeacher, Inc. P.O.Box 23795 3800 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, NY Rochester New York 14692-3795 USA Tel: +1 (716) 389-0961 Fax: +1 (716) 389-0960 Email: hyminder@techno.com - HyMinder - MarkMinder

TetraSys 26 avenue de Tourville F-75 007 Paris France Tel: +33 (1) 45-56-99-22 Fax: +33 (1) 45-56-98-77 - EasyTag - HyperTag Texcel (UK) Ltd. Fountain Court 28-32 Frances Road Windsor Berkshire SL4 3AA United Kingdom Tel: +44-753-833111 Fax: +44-753-854090 Email: sales@texcel.no - Information Manager TIME LUX sarl 61 avenue de la Gare L-1611 Luxembourg Luxembourg Tel: +352 40 53 221 Fax: +352 40 50 09 - EditTime Unifilt Co. P.O.Box 2528 Edison, NJ 08817 USA Tel: +1 (908) 225-2243 Fax: +1 (908) 225-2248 - TableTAG WordPerfect Corp. 1555 N. Technology Way Orem, UT 84057 USA Tel: +1 (801) 228 5006 - Intellitag - WordPerfect SGML Edition for Windows XSoft 10200 Willow Creek Road San Diego, CA 92131 USA Tel: +1 (619) 695 7700 Fax: +1 (619) 695 7710 - CAPS XyVision Inc. 101 Edgewater Drive Wakefield, MA 01880 USA Tel: +1 (617) 245-4100 Fax: +1 (617) 246-6209 - Parlance Document Manager - Parlance Publisher Zandar Corporation R.R.2 Box 962 (Hanley Lane) PO Box 467 Jericho, VT 05465 USA Tel: +1 (802) 899-1058 - Alchemy - TagWrite ZIFTech Computer Systems, Inc. 120 Herchmer Crescent Kingston, Ontario K7M 2V9 Canada Tel: +1 (613) 531-9226 Fax: +1 (613) 531-8003 Email: 70444.126@compuserve.com - DTD Viewer