SGML and related standards: New directions as the second decade begins
✍ Scribed by Mason, James David
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 39 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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✦ Synopsis
In 1995 and early 1996, the ISO standards process that tee). Our formal statement about our activities is in the includes SGML and related standards has seen a reannual report I presented to our parent body at its meeting markable coalescence of efforts that should be benefiin Dublin back in July of 1995; it is available at http:// cial to all of us. Most notably, DSSSL and HyTime are www.ornl.gov/sgml/wg8/docs/1789ann.sgm. The cordeveloping a shared approach to tree structures and responding document for 1996 will be available at http: query languages. A consequence of this may be the development of a set of general facilities that can be shared //www.ornl.gov/sgml/wg8/docs/1834ann.sgm. among all SGML-based standards and that, when incor-
To put this information into context, the body responsiporated into products, will make our documents easier ble for primary SGML standardization is ISO/IEC JTC1/ to work with and more powerful in their ability to deliver SC18/WG8. What that means is that Working Group 8, information.