Report of SGML RG, Boulder

N1829

A document concerning SGML review,
of the ISO 8879 Rapporteur Group of ISO Working Group 8



                                       ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 N1829



Title:             Report of SGML RG


Source:            SGML RG


Project:           JTC1.18.15, SGML


Project editor:    Charles Goldfarb


Status of
document:


Requested action:  For information


Date               20 October 1995


Distribution:      WG8 and Liasons


                      Report of SGML RG

   The  SGML  Rapporteur Group has accepted  *in  principle*
the  following recommendations pertaining to the  review  of
ISO/IEC   8879.    (This  means  that  they   are   accepted
"semantically" subject to being reconsidered if  they  prove
to  be  incompatible  with some other  recommendation.   The
syntax   which   accompanied   the   proposals   of    these
recommendations is not necessarily the syntax that  will  be
adopted.)
   1.RECOMMENDATION:  Provide  a  way  to   declare   name
characters that have no upper/lower case distinction without
having to repeat the characters.
   2.RECOMMENDATION:  Provide a  uniform  character  range
specification mechanism and use it uniformly (e.g.,  in  the
UC/LCNMSTRT and SHORTREF specifications) to add large chunks
of characters concisely).
   3.RECOMMENDATION:  Provide a means for specifying more
than  one  language in the public text language of a  formal
public identifier
   Other  proposals received from various sources have  been
added  to the list of proposals to be considered during  the
review.

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