MIL-STD-2361C

Abstract

This standard establishes the Extensible Markup Language (XML) requirements for digital development, acquisition, and delivery of Army administrative and technical and equipment publications. The requirements for technical and equipment publications include the development, acquisition, and delivery requirements for Electronic and Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (ETM/IETM). Further, this standard establishes the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) requirements for digital development, acquisition, and delivery of Army training and doctrine publications. Designated appendices of this standard contain references to, and access instructions for, the Document Type Definitions (DTD) and Tag Description Lists for the development of Army publications in conjunction with the respective functional requirements documents. Data prepared in conformance to these requirements will facilitate the automated storage, retrieval, interchange, and processing of publications from heterogeneous data sources. The requirements set forth by this military standard include: <br>a. Procedures and symbology for markup of unformatted text in accordance with this specific application of SGML and XML. <br>b. SGML and XML compatible codes that will support encoding of administrative, training and doctrine, and technical and equipment publications to specific format and content requirements applicable to each type of publication. <br>c. Output processing requirements that will render a conforming SGML/XML source file to the style and format requirements of the appropriate style sheet (i.e. FOSI, DSSSL, XSL-T, XSL-FO). One use for XSL-T is to transform well-formed XML documents to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) for viewing on web browsers. <br>Applicability. The standard is available for use by all Governmental Departments and Agencies, and by industry. The requirements contained in this standard may be applied to all Army programs that produce publication source data, and is directly applicable to all Army departmental media , including administrative, training and doctrine, technical and equipment publications, including Electronic and Interactive Electronic Publications (EP/IEP) such as ETMs, IETMs, and Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI). <b><u>Intended Use:</u></b> The use of DTDs and style sheets will allow for preparation of documents in an automated support environment using any or all of the following processes: a. Creation of a document type declaration or DTD for publication control, if one does not already exist. b. Creation of a style sheet, if one does not already exist, to specify the formatting to be applied to documents conforming with the document type declaration. c. Authoring a publication and inserting SGML/XML markup tags. d. Verification of correct syntax according to SGML/XML rules. e. Use of a style sheet and a document type declaration to direct the composition of the document so that the produced (printed or displayed) copy corresponds to the proper format and style. f. Electronic review of a document, using SGML/XML or an SGML/XML derived presentation format for comments. g. Generation of a text presentation metafile in a page description language (PDL) to drive the display device, such as a printer or typesetter. <br>