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<entry id="btool"
       datestamp="2000/03/23" 
       modifier="Graham.Williams@cmis.csiro.au">
  <about>
    <name>btOOL</name>
    <caption>Perl library for parsing and processing BibTeX files.</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Greg Ward</name>
      <email>gward@ase.com</email>
    </author>
    <home>http://starship.python.net/~gward/btOOL/</home>
    <license type="gpl"/>
    <version>
      <number>0.32</number>
    </version>
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      Includes a C library called btparse and a perl library
      Text::BibTeX. Features include: robust, efficient lexical
      scanning and parsing of BibTeX files; excellent error
      detection, reporting, and recovery in the parser; full
      processing of BibTeX strings (macros expanded, whitespace
      collapsed, strings concatenated); handles all common entry
      types (@comment, @preamble, @string, and everything else)
      with ease, and gives you full access to the contents of all
      entry types; support for processing author names identically
      to BibTeX; preliminary support for imposing/enforcing a
      particular database structure.
    </abstract>
    <platform>
    Perl/C
    </platform>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>biblio/bibtex/utils/btOOl</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>

