Project Editor's Review of ISO 8879

Welcome to the ISO 8879 Review current information set. This archive contains the latest revisions of the key documents that I consider to govern the Project Editor's review of ISO 8879.

ISO 8879, the SGML International Standard, is developed and maintained by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG1; that is, Working Group 1 of Subcomittee 34 of Joint Technical Committee 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission. A more complete selection of SC34 documents can be found at the SC34 Web Service.

The current information set is divided into three categories: completed work, work in process, and procedural documents.

The completed documents are:

Web SGML

ISO 8879 Annexes K and L: Web SGML Adaptations.

HyTime Two

ISO/IEC 10744:1997, the second edition of HyTime, contains in normative Annexes the SGML Extended Facilities and SGML Property Set. As stated in N1855, these will be incorporated in the revision of SGML (ISO 8879). There is a summary of the Extended Facilities and an information site with a Reader's Guide.

N1896REV

ISO 8879 Annex J: Extended Naming Rules

The work in process documents are:

N1035

Recommendations for a possible revision of ISO 8879.

N1855

3rd interim report of the SGML review.

N1893

4th interim report of the SGML review.

N1925

Report of the SGML group, Barcelona, May, 1997.

The procedural documents are:

N1289:

Principles for future development of SGML

N1350:

Policy for conducting the SGML review

N1351

Request for contributions to the SGML review.

Status Report

The Third Interim Report was produced at the Munich meeting of WG8 in May, 1996, which some 20+ members attended. It is a consolidated report that incorporates all earlier reports (except N1035, because of its size) and policy documents, as well as reporting on recent work.

The Fourth Interim Report from the Boston meeting of WG8 in November, 1996, and the Barcelona meeting report of May 9, 1997, do not consolidate earlier reports.

Many of the recommendations from the interim reports were incorporated in the Web SGML Adaptations, which were adopted in final form for publication by ISO/IEC at the Chicago meeting in December, 1998. The Web SGML Adaptations may now be implemented by conforming SGML systems.

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