ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 18/WG8 N 1901

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TITLE: Availability of CD text for ISO-HTML Hypertext Markup Language
SOURCE: David Abrahamson, Ireland (david@cs.tcd.ie), Roger Price, France (rprice@cs.uml.edu)
PROJECT: ISO-HTML Hypertext Markup Language .
PROJECT EDITOR: David Abrahamson, Ireland (david@cs.tcd.ie), Roger Price, France (rprice@cs.uml.edu)
STATUS: Proposed Committee Draft
ACTION: For submission to the CD balloting procedure
DATE: 23 March 1997
DISTRIBUTION: WG8 and Liaisons
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Availability of CD text

The committe draft (CD) of the ISO-HTML project is now available for review by the National Bodies and Liaison Organisations

Materials provided

The draft CD is now available at the site ftp://ftp.cs.tcd.ie/isohtml and provides:

  1. File CD.availability: this document.
  2. File README: a list of differences between the W3C's HTML 3.2 Recommendation and the ISO-HTML CD.
  3. The text of the future International Standard marked up using the DTD defined by ISO TR 9573 for use at the ISO Central Secretariat: file iso-html.sgml
  4. The SGML declaration required for ISO-HTML: file iso-html.dcl
  5. The entity set required by the ISO-HTML document type definition: file iso-html.ent
  6. The DTD for ISO-HTML: file iso-html.dtd

Note that this draft CD takes into account the consensus view on the question of sectioning in ISO-HTML. Authors will not have to use any new elements to conform to ISO-HTML.

Notes in the text addressed to NB experts

In addition to the notes in the text which elaborate or provide further details in support of the normative text, there are 20 notes addressed to the NB experts on matters in which the Editors wish to receive the technical consensus of the NB experts. These address such questions as the possible replacement of the keyword PCDATA by RCDATA in the content models of certain elements. Although the editors are always interested in individual opinions, it is the general consensus which is sought. To facilitate the formation of this consensus, the mailing list iso-html@cs.tcd.ie has been made available.

Sample documents

Sample documents will not be prepared until the NB balloting has been completed and any corrections folded into the text. However markup examples are provided for most of the 70 elements.

Gratuitous incompatibilities

The editors have sought to avoid any gratuitous imcompatibilities between ISO-HTML and HTML 2.0/3.2. NB experts considering proposing changes should also consider the opportunity of proposing the same change to the IETF and to the World Wide Web Consortium.