INCITS/ISO 8879 : 1986
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INFORMATION PROCESSING - TEXT AND OFFICE SYSTEMS - STANDARD GENERALIZED MARKUP LANGUAGE (SGML)
Hardcopy , PDF
22-04-2024
English
01-01-1986
0 Introduction
0.1 Background
0.2 Objectives
0.3 Organization
1 Scope
2 Field of Application
3 References
4 Definitions
5 Notation
5.1 Syntactic Tokens
5.2 Ordering and Selection Symbols
6 Entity Structure
6.1 SGML Document
6.2 SGML Entities
6.3 Non-SGML Data Entity
7 Element Structure
7.1 Prolog
7.2 Document Element
7.3 Element
7.4 Start-tag
7.5 End-tag
7.6 Content
7.7 Document Type Specification
7.8 Generic Identifier (GI) Specification
7.9 Attribute Specification List
8 Processing Instruction
8.1 Quantities
9 Common Constructs
9.1 Replaceable Character Data
9.2 Character Data
9.3 Name
9.4 Entity References
9.5 Character Reference
9.6 Delimiter Recognition
9.7 Markup Suppression
9.8 Capacity
10 Markup Declarations: General
10.1 Parts of Declarations
10.2 Formal Public Identifier
10.3 Comment Declaration
10.4 Marked Section Declaration
10.5 Entity Declaration
11 Markup Declarations: Document Type Definition
11.1 Document Type Declaration
11.2 Element Declaration
11.3 Attribute Definition List Declaration
11.4 Notation Declaration
11.5 Short Reference Mapping Declaration
11.6 Short Reference Use Declaration
12 Markup Declarations: Link Process Definition
12.1 Link Type Declaration
12.2 Link Set Declaration
12.3 Link Set Use Declaration
13 SGML Declaration
13.1 Document Character Set
13.2 Capacity Set
13.3 Concrete Syntax Scope
13.4 Concrete Syntax
13.5 Feature Use
13.6 Application-specific Information
14 Reference and Core Concrete Syntaxes
15 Conformance
15.1 Conforming SGML Document
15.2 Conforming SGML Application
15.3 Conforming SGML System
15.4 Validating SGML Parser
15.5 Documentation Requirements
15.6 System Declaration
Annexes
A Introduction to Generalized Markup
A.1 The Markup Process
A.2 Descriptive Markup
A.3 Rigorous Markup
A.4 Conclusion
A.5 Acknowledgments
A.6 Bibliography
B Basic Concepts
B.1 Documents, Document Type Definitions, and Procedures
B.2 Markup
B.3 Distinguishing Markup from Text
B.4 Document Structure
B.5 Attributes
B.6 Entities
B.7 Characters
B.8 Marked Sections
B.9 Unique Identifier Attributes
B.10 Content Reference Attributes
B.11 Content Model Exceptions
B.12 Document Type Declaration
8.13 Data Content
8.14 Customizing
B.15 Conformance
C Additional Concepts
C.1 Markup Minimization Features
C.2 LINK Features: SIMPLE, IMPLICIT, and EXPLICIT
C.3 Other Features
D Public Text
D.1 Element Sets
D.2 Data Content Notations
D.3 Variant Concrete Syntaxes
D.4 Entity Sets
E Application Examples
E.1 Document Type Definition
E.2 Computer Graphics Metafile
E.3 Device-Independent Code Extension
F Implementation Considerations
F.1 A Model of SGML Parsing
F.2 Initialization
F.3 Dynamic Procedure Mapping
F.4 Error Handling
G Conformance Classification and Certification
G.1 Classification Code
G.2 Certification Considerations
H Theoretical Basis for the SGML Content Model
H.1 Model Group Notation
H.2 Application of Automata Theory
H.3 Divergence from Automata Theory
I Nonconforming Variations
I.1 Fixed-length Generic Identifiers
I.2 Single Delimiter
Describes 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.
DocumentType |
Standard
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Pages |
166
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PublisherName |
Information Technology Industry Council
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Status |
Superseded
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SupersededBy |
Standards | Relationship |
ISO 8879:1986 | Identical |
ISO 9069:1988 | Information processing SGML support facilities SGML Document Interchange Format (SDIF) |
ISO 639:1988 | Code for the representation of names of languages |
ISO/IEC 4873:1991 | Information technology ISO 8-bit code for information interchange Structure and rules for implementation |
ISO/IEC 2022:1994 | Information technology Character code structure and extension techniques |
ISO/IEC 9070:1991 | Information technology — SGML support facilities — Registration procedures for public text owner identifiers |
ISO/IEC 6937:2001 | Information technology Coded graphic character set for text communication Latin alphabet |
ISO/IEC 646:1991 | Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange |
ISO/IEC 8632-4:1999 | Information technology Computer graphics Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information Part 4: Clear text encoding |
ISO/IEC 8632-2:1992 | Information technology — Computer graphics — Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information — Part 2: Character encoding |
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