Activity Report 6, XML Project

2002-11-16
XML Project/JSA

by Yushi KOMACHI



1. Meetings

1.1 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Meeting, 2001-12-8/13, Orlando

As a project editor of ISO/IEC TR 9573-11, Y. Komachi reported the activities taken by the XML Project, using the document SC34 N288 (see Attachment 1): Report of the Project for Revising ISO/IEC TR 9573-11. The N288 includes Harmonization with ISO CS and Drafting Plan of TR 9573-11 Edition 2. The SC34 meeting agreed the resolution (SC34 N286) on this topic:

Resolution 6: Report on ISO/IEC TR 9573-11

SC34 accepts the report/plan for revision of ISO/IEC TR 9573-11, N288, and instructs the editor to create Daft TR according to the plan.

Unanimous

1.2 ITSIG/XML-Study Group Meeting, 2002-05-16, Geneva

Daft TR 9573-11, Second Edition was reviewed and discussed. In the text, The items

 2. References
13. XML DTD
13.1 XMLization
13.2 Modularization
13.3 Non-ISONET base description
Annex D XML DTD Modules
Annex E Schema module by RELAX NG (ISO/IEC CD 19757-2) (informative)
Annex F XSLT specification for translation to HTML (informative)
are new (most of them had been reported in "Activity Report 5, XML Project" 2001-10-01), and other items are identical to "ITSIG exchange DTD, version 0.93".

The text with minor changes was approved to submit to SC34 for ballot.

1.3 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Meeting, 2002-05-18/22, Barcelona

The SC34 meeting agreed the resolution (SC34 N315) on this topic:

Resolution 2: Revision of ISO/IEC TR 9573-11

SC34 accepts SC34 N305 (see Attachment 2) as the proposed text of ISO/IEC TR 9573-11, Second Edition, and instructs the editor to forward it to the SC34 Secretariat for DTR ballot and processing.

Unanimous


2. Ballot

The SC34 N305 (see Attachment 2) has been circulated as ISO/IEC JTC1 N6818 for DTR ballot:

ISO/IEC JTC1 N6818 2002-08-15
Document Type: Text for DTR Ballot
Document Title: Text of ISO/IEC TR 9573-11 2nd edition, Structure Descriptions and Style Specifications for Standards Document Interchange
Document Source: SC 34 Secretariat
Document Status: Please submit your vote via the online balloting system.
Action ID: LB
Due Date: 2002-11-15


Attachment 1

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0288

Information Technology --
Document Description and Processing Languages

TITLE:

Report of the Project for Revising ISO/IEC TR 9573-11

SOURCE:

Project Editor

PROJECT:

15.07.02.11.00

PROJECT EDITOR:

Y. Komachi

STATUS:

Activity Report

ACTION:

Revising ISO/IEC TR 9573-11

DATE:

2001-12-11

DISTRIBUTION:

SC34 and Liaisons

REFER TO:

 

REPLY TO:

 


Report of the Project for Revising ISO/IEC TR 9573-11


1. Harmonization with ISO CS

The Editor reported his activity on revising ISO/IEC 9573-11 to ITSIG (Information Technology Strategies Implementation Group) meeting in Oct. 2001 in order to make appropriate harmonization with the actual document operation in ISO CS. Responding the report and other related discussions, ITSIG concluded the following resolution:

Resolution 6. XML

ITSIG,

noting the summary report on current and future use of XML (agenda item 8.2, ITSIG 06/2001), confirms the need for action in the XML field and expresses its strong support of extending activities in this area and, bearing this in mind:

- asks the STADIST project leader, assisted by ISO/CS, to prepare revised terms of reference for the STADIST project in order to cover extensively the definition of standards' metadata to be based on the existing ISONET manual, as well as on other specifications used by industry groups;

- congratulates JISC and Dr. Komachi for the work achieved so far, proposes that he maintain the leadership and, with the assistance from ISO/CS, progress with experimenting the use of XML DTDs and new authoring tools within a small group of volunteers from SCs of JTC 1;

- asks ISO/CS to organize in 2002, an ISO/ITSIG XML workshop aiming at exchanging views and experiences among the various groups working on XML developments in ISO. The workshop may be open to representatives from industry groups and consortia, depending on the programme that will be finalized.


2. Drafting Plan of TR 9573-11 Edition 2

The Editor plans to create the 1st working draft of ISO/IEC 9573-11 Edition 2 which has the following structure:

Introduction
1. Scope
2. References
3. Approach to the harmonized set of ISO DTDs
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Attachment 2

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0305

Information Technology --
Document Description and Processing Languages

TITLE:

ISO/IEC TR 9573-11 2nd edition

SOURCE:

Project Editor

PROJECT:

15.07.02.11.00

EDITOR:

Yushi Komachi and Samarin Alexander

STATUS:

Text for DTR processing

ACTION:

DTR processing

DATE:

2002-05-22

DISTRIBUTION:

SC34 and Liaisons

REFER TO:

 

REPLY TO:

 


DTR text (2002-05-22) to

ISO/IEC TR 9573-11 2nd edition
Structure Descriptions and Style Specifications for Standards Document Interchange


Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Scope
2. References
3. Approach to the harmonized set of ISO DTDs
3.1 Document flow (standards only)
3.2 Required DTDs
3.3 Guidelines for harmonization of DTD
3.4 General guidelines
3.5 Technical approach
3.6 Examples
4. Architecture of Standards
4.1 General considerations
4.2 Normative or informative
4.3 Not "All inside all"
5. Element types description for base DTD
5.1 General convention for element types
5.2 General convention for attributes
5.3 The top-level structure of a standard
5.4 Nested subdivisions of text
5.5 Displayed components
5.6 Terminology
5.7 Inline components
5.8 Referential components
5.9 Float components
5.10 Very specific components
5.11 Possible extensions of the DTD
6. Profile
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Architecture
6.3 Boilerplate text support
6.4 Conclusions
7. Master entity dictionary
7.1 General
7.2 Overall structure
7.3 Base and local groups
7.4 Content models
7.5 Attributes modification
7.6 Modification of formulae component
7.7 Modification of figure component
7.8 Modification of table component
8. Derivation of DTDs from the base DTD
9. Authoring DTDs
9.1 Authoring DTD for native SGML tools
9.2 Authoring DTD for word processors
9.3 Use of HTML 3.2 for standards development
10. DTD for terminological standards
11. DTD for multilingual standards
12. All public entities
13. XML DTD
13.1 XMLization
13.2 Modularization
13.3 Non-ISONET base description
 
Annex A Example of terminology in SGML (informative)
Annex B Example of terminology presentation (informative)
Annex C SGML DTDs for profile (informative)
Annex D XML DTD Modules (informative)
Annex E Schema module by RELAX NG (ISO/IEC CD 19757-2) (informative)
Annex F XSLT specification for translation to HTML (informative)


Introduction

The 1st edition of ISO/IEC TR 9573-11:1992 was published in 1992-09-15. Considering the actual works in the ISO system for standard development, the TR was modified to be the "ITSIG exchange DTD" by activities of the SGML group of ISO/ITSIG (Information Technology Strategies Implementation Group).

Responding to the user requirements for interchanging standards documents in XML environment, ITSIG instructed its XML project to develop XML DTD being based on the SGML DTD.

This 2nd edition of ISO/IEC PDTR 9573-11 includes both the SGML and XML DTDs. The clauses except 2, 13, Annex C, D, E are almost identical to the corresponding clauses of "ITSIG exchange DTD, version 0.93, 1998-03-03".

1. Scope

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