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BS 6868:1987

Withdrawn
Withdrawn

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Specification for standard generalized markup language (SGML) for text and office systems
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Withdrawn date

04-25-2012

Language(s)

English

Published date

09-30-1987

National foreword
Committees responsible
Specification
0 Introduction
1 Scope
2 Field of application
3 References
4 Definitions
5 Notation
6 Entity structure
7 Element structure
8 Processing instruction
9 Common constructs
10 Markup declarations: General
11 Markup declarations: Document type definition
12 Markup declarations: Link process definition
13 SGML declaration
14 Reference and core concrete syntaxes
15 Conformance
Annexes
A Introduction to generalized markup
B Basic concepts
C Additional concepts
D Public text
E Application examples
F Implementation considerations
G Conformance classification and certification
H Theoretical basis for the SGML content model
I Nonconforming variations
National appendix
A Additional information for the UK
Figure
1 Character classes: Abstract syntax
2 Character classes: Concrete syntax
3 Reference delimiter set: General
4 Reference delimiter set: Short references
5 Reference capacity set
6 Reference quantity set
7 Reference concrete syntax
8 Typical SGML declaration for basic SGML document
9 Element markup
10 Start-tag with two attributes
11 Multicode basic concrete syntax
12 Graphics metafile attributes (1 of 2): Encoding and
    view
13 Graphics metafile attributes (2 of 2): Size and
    rotation
14 Function characters for device-independent multicode
    concrete syntaxes
15 FSV conformance classification

Describes the structure, format and other attributes of documents, including images and graphics, so that texts can be subsequently processed, for example published, without loss of identity or descriptive mark-up.

Committee
ICT/1
DevelopmentNote
Also numbered as EN 28879 and ISO 8879 Supersedes 86/67164 DC (09/2005)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
166
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Withdrawn

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