ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N257

 

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34

Information Technology --

Document Description and Processing Languages

 

TITLE:

 

Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 223 - Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL)

SOURCE:

SC 34 Secretariat

PROJECT:

 

PROJECT EDITOR:

SC 34 / WG 1

STATUS:

 

ACTION:

Based on the voting results, this project is approved. This document is forwarded to WG 1, which is instructed to begin development of this new work item.  The JTC 1 NP number for this project is ISO/IEC 19757.

DATE:

 

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JTC 1 / SC 34 N 0257

2001-10-04

JTC 1 / SC 34 Voting Summary

N 223 - Proposed Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL)

Q.1

Do you accept the proposal in document JTC 1 N 183 as a sufficient definition of the new work item? (If you have responded "NO" to the above question, you are required to comment.)

7 of 13 – Yes , 1 of 13 – No ,  1 of 13 – Abstain ,  4 of 13 - No Response

Q.2

Do you support the addition of the new work item to the programme of work of the joint technical committee?

7 of 13 – Yes , 0 of 13 – No , 1 of 13 Abstain , 5 of 13 – No Response

Q.3

Do you commit yourself to participate in the development of this new work item?

5 of 13 – Yes , 3 of 13 – No , 0 of 13 Abstain , 5 of 13 – No Response

Q.4

Are you able to offer a project editor who will dedicate his/her efforts to the advancement and maintenance of this project? (If "YES," please identify .............................................................)

1 of 13 – Yes , 7 of 13 – No , 0 of 13 Abstain , 5 of 13 – No Response

Q.5

Do you have a major contribution or a reference document ready for submittal?

1 of 13 – Yes , 7 of 13 – No , 0 of 13 Abstain , 5 of 13 – No Response

Q.6

Will you have such a contribution in ninety days?

1 of 13 – Yes , 6 of 13 – No , 0 of 13 Abstain , 6 of 13 – No Response

 

P-Member

Q.1

Q.2

Q.3

Q.4

Q.5

Q.6

Comments

 

Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Canada

Y

Y

Y

N

N

N

 

China

Y

Y

Y

N

N

N

 

Denmark

Y

Y

N

N

N

N

 

France

abstain

abstain

N

N

N

N

 

Ireland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japan

N

 

 

 

 

 
See attachment

Republic of  Korea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Netherlands

Y

Y

Y

N

N

Y

 

Norway

Y

Y

N

N

N

N

 

United Kingdom

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

 

See attachment

United States

Y

Y

Y

N

N

N

 

 

NP Approval Criteria per the JTC 1 Directives

9.3.2           In order to be approved, the NP shall be supported by a majority of all P‑members of JTC 1*  with at least five P‑members of the SC to which the project will be assigned committed to active participation.

 

*Per JTC 1 N 6148, the 60 Day Letter Ballot Concerning Subcommittee Level Approval of NPs was   approved

 

Based on the results of this letter ballot, this NP is APPROVED, and will

be added to the SC 34 Program of Work

 

 

National Body Comments Received

 

Japan

 

The specifications to be developed in this project are hardly clear enough for answering Q.2 through Q.6. Some attachment, e.g., a working draft, is requested to show the preliminary features of this DSDL in comparison with the existing schema languages.

 

United Kingdom

 

Introduction

SGML Document Type Definitions (DTDs) allow document structures to be formally modelled but do not allow details of data types or data relationships to be recorded in an XML-compatible way. While the W3C XML Schema Definition language (XSD) does allow data types to be used to validate the contents of SGML elements and values of attributes, it does not allow the relationships between the values of different attributes and contents of elements to be validated. A new, compact, efficient and XML-based document type definition for the integrated description of document structures, data types and data relationships will make it possible to automate the processing of structured information resources to the level required by business users, which has a higher level of requirements than those identified from the publishing community for which SGML was originally developed. The standard will also define the scope and notation for converting and interworking a core subset of document structure, data type, and data relationship constraint models among the three notations: DSDL, DTD declarations and XSD.

1 Scope

1.1 Definition of scope

This International Standard, known as the Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL), allows the definition of document structures, data types and data relationship constraints that can be applied to data represented using the ISO/IEC 8879 Standard Generalized Markup Language and its derivatives, such as ISO/IEC 10744, Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime), and the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML).

2 Conformance

To be defined

3 Normative references

ISO 8879:1986, Information processing -- Text and office systems -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml)

W3C XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/)

4 Definitions

5 Symbols and abbreviations

DSDL

Document Schema Definition Language 

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language (ISO/IEC 8879)

XML

W3C Extensible Markup Language

6 Documentation Conventions

Any references in this document to industry and proprietary standards, products, user groups, and publications are not normative, and do not imply endorsement by ISO, IEC, or their national member bodies or affiliates. Any brand names or trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The formal definitions are expressed as using the W3C XML subset of SGML.

The formal definitions are part of the text of this International Standard and are protected by copyright. In order to facilitate conformance to DSDL, the formal definitions may be copied as specified in the following copyright notice: Copyright (C) 200? International Organization for Standardization. Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with conforming DSDL systems and applications as defined in ISO/IEC ????, provided this notice is included in all copies. The permission to copy does not apply to any other material in this International Standard.

Note 5. This document uses editorial conventions mandated by the ISO with which the reader should be familiar in order to understand the implications of certain words.

The text describing each construct emphasizes semantics, while the formal XML definition provides the rigorous syntactic definitions underlying the text descriptions.

Note 6. For this reason, it is recommended that the reader refer to the XML definitions while reading the textual descriptions. Although the XML definition always follows the related text, the user may find it helpful to read the XML first in some cases.

When a construct is first introduced, it is described in the text. If the construct occurs in the formal XML specification, both the formal XML name and a full name in English are presented, as follows:

7 ???

Annex 1 (normative): Requirements

This standard is designed to provide the following functionality:

  1. The standard shall provide a means of expressing, in SGML/XML instance format, all of the markup declarations permitted by the WebSGML profile of ISO/IEC 8879 and in Version 1.0 of the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML)
  2. The standard shall be capable of identifying external data resources that may validly be included within document instances that conform to the model, including data instances that are in notations other than that defined in this standard.
  3. The standard shall be capable of identifying the notations required to process those parts of document instances that are not encoded according to the standard.
  4. The standard should allow the representation within document instances of data in a clearly identified notation that is not intended to be processed by programs that are conformant with this standard.
  5. The standard shall be capable of importing parts of models from external sources
  6. The standard shall provide a means of constraining the number of times a particular element may occur at a given point in a document model to be within a range with specified minimum and/or maximum values.
  7. The standard shall be capable of identifying the character set to be used to constrain the contents of elements or attributes.
  8. The standard shall provide a means of constraining the content of attribute values and elements to conform to a particular datatype or pattern based on a formally named, standardized, set of datatyping rules.
  9. The standard shall provide a means of identifying a set of permitted values against which the content of a particular element or attribute value shall be checked for validity. The set of permitted values may be provided as an external resource, or by reference to an external service using a standardized API.
  10. The standard shall provide a means by which the model of a document can be altered in response to the contents of a particular element or attribute (e.g. if the contents of an element or attribute recording the sex of a person is set to "Male" the use of any elements or attributes related to pregnancy should be forbidden).
  11. The standard shall provide facilities for defining "model types" that can form the basis for the models of elements in multiple document type definitions in such a way that users can restrict the use of parts of the model and add application-specific elements to the models at those points at which they are appropriate.
  12. The standard shall provide a means by which the authority responsible for defining part or all of a document structure can be uniquely identified, with elements defined by different authorities being identifiable as such within document instances.
  13. The standards shall provide a means by which sections of a document structure can be temporarily disabled without having to define a new document structure.
  14. The standard shall provide a means by which the rationale for an element, attribute or other information component can be recorded as an annotation to its declaration
  15. The standard shall be designed in such a way that it can be extended to include the functions of ISO/IEC 8879 not included in the normative part of this standard.

Annex 2 (normative): XML DTD for DSDL

Annex 3 (normative): DSDL Description of DSDL

Annex 4 (informative): Alphabetical List of DSDL Components

4.1 DSDL components common to SGML and XML

The following DSDL components can be used to describe documents conforming to the WebSGML subset of ISO/IEC 8879:
 

Possible DSDL element/attribute

Defined in clause

Equivalent ISO 8879 Construct

Equivalent XML DTD construct

Equivalent XML Schema element

<attribute

 

[143] attribute definition

 AttlistDecl

<attribute

<attribute
 name

 

[144] attribute name

 Name

<attribute
 name

<attribute
 type
 datatypeNamespace

 

[35] declared value

AttType
NotationName

<attribute
 type
(notation name fixed)

<attribute
 defaultValue

 

[147] default value
[attribute value specification]

DefaultDecl

<attribute
 default

<attribute
 fixed

 

[147] default value ["FIXED"]

DefaultDecl

<attribute
 fixed

<attribute
 source

 

[147] default value ["IMPLIED"|"REQUIRED"]
(but not "CONREF"|"CURRENT")|

DefaultDecl 

<attribute
 use

<characterSet
 encodingBase

 

[173] character set description
[174] base character set

 

EncodingDecl
(in the XML declaration)

encoding
(in the XML declaration)

<comment

Should this be <annotation?

[91] comment declaration

Comment

N/A

<data
 type
 datatypeNamespace

 

From Relax-NG

 N/A

<simpleType
 type

<element

 

[116] element declaration

elementdecl

<element

<element
 name

 

[30] generic identifier

Name

<element
 name

<element
 contentType

Do we need this? Does it need to conflate with type?

[125] declared content

contentspec 
(Do we need special attributes for EMPTY and ANY?)

<any

<element
 type
 datatypeNamespace

 

From Relax-NG

N/A

<element
 type

<element
 minOccurs
 maxOccurs

 

Extension  based on W3C XML Schema that generalizes the specifically named options provided in Relax-NG