ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 N00XX

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34

Information Technology —

Document Description and Processing Languages

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PROJECT:	All SC34 projects
PROJECT EDITOR:	All SC34 editors
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ACTION:	For information
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REPLY TO:	Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Chairman) SAIC Information Technology Services Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 423 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 423 574-18964 Network: [email protected] http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/sc34/ ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/sc34/ Ms. Marisa Peacock, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat American National Standards Institute 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Tel: +1 212 642 4976 Fax: +1 212 840 2298 Email: [email protected]

Minutes of Regular Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG1, Document Description and Processing Languages: Information Description, 29 November–3 December 1999, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

WG1's primary activities during this meeting were:

1) Completion of final text for IS 13673, Information Technology — Document Processing and Related Communication — Conformance Testing for Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) Systems

2) Design of a modified notation for presenting the syntax of SGML to be used in the revision of ISO 8879. The notation is based on the three-level model established at the Granada meeting, which recognizes three components of an SGML parser: a lexical analyzer, a markup analyzer, and a structure analyzer. Each layer produces outputs that are input to the layer above it, with the output of the structure analyzer being input to the grove construction process. Each layer can also change the state of the layers below it. Only the structure analyzer accesses the DTD.

Expected contributions to the next WG1 meeting include testing the proposed notation to express a significant part of the syntax of SGML.