Announce: PySgrep -- Structured grep

[Dave Kuhlman]

I've made a Python wrapper for sgrep.

Here is a brief description of sgrep from the sgrep home page:

   "sgrep (structured grep) is a tool for searching and indexing text,
   SGML,XML and HTML files and filtering text streams using structural
   criteria. The data model of sgrep is based on regions, which are
   nonempty substrings of text. Regions are typically occurrences of
   constant strings, SGML-tags, or meaningful text elements, which are
   recognizable through some delimiting strings or the builtin SGML, XML
   and HTML parser. Regions can be arbitrarily long, arbitrarily
   overlapping, and arbitrarily nested.
   
   "Sgrep is a convenient tool for making queries to almost any kind of
   text files with some well kown structure. These include programs, mail
   folders, news folders, HTML, SGML, etc... With relatively simple
   queries you can display mail messages by their subject or sender,
   extract titles or links or any regions from HTML files, function
   prototypes from C or make complex queries to SGML files based on the
   DTD of the file."

You can find my Python wrapper at:

    http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/pysgrep-1.0a.tar.gz

See the file README.pysgrep in the PySgrep distribution for
information on how to build it.  I've only built it on Linux.

I've written some documentation on PySgrep and how to use it.
It's at:

    http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/pysgrep.html

You can read about sgrep itself at:

    http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html

Comments and suggestions will be appreciated.

  - Dave

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Dave Kuhlman
dkuhlman at rexx.com