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ISO 8879 Document Information:
Title
Information Processing - Text and Office Systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
International Organization for Standardization
Publication Date:
Oct 15, 1986
Scope:
This International Standard:
a) Specifies an abstract syntax known as the Standard Generalized
Markup Language (SGML). The
language expresses the description of a document's structure and other
attributes, as well as other
information that makes the markup interpretable.
b) Specifies a reference concrete syntax that binds the abstract
syntax to specific characters and
numeric values, and criteria for defining variant concrete syntaxes.
c) Defines conforming documents in terms of their use of components of
the language.
d) Defines conforming systems in terms of their ability to process
conforming documents and to
recognize markup errors in them.
e) Specifies how data not defined by this International Standard (such
as images, graphics, or
formatted text) can be included in a conforming document.
NOTE - This International Standard does not:
a) Identify or specify "standard" document types, document
architectures, or text structures.
b) Specify the Implementation, architecture, or markup error handling
of conforming systems.
c) Specify how conforming documents are to be created.
d) Specify the data stream, message handling system, file structure,
or other physical
representation in which conforming documents are stored or
interchanged, or any character set or
coding scheme into or from which conforming documents might be
translated for such purposes.
e) Specify the data content representation or notation for images,
graphics, formatted text, etc.,
that are included in a conforming document.
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