scope:

This standard establishes Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) requirements for digital development, acquisition, and delivery of Army administrative, training and doctrine, 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) when used in conjunction with MIL-PRF-87268 and MIL-PRF-87269. Designated appendices of this standard contain references to, and access instructions for, the modular SGML 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:

a. Procedures and symbology for markup of unformatted text in accordance with this specific application of SGML.

b. SGML/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.

c. Output processing requirements that will format a conforming SGML/XML source file to the style and format requirements of the appropriate Formatting Output Specification Instance (FOSI) based on the Output Specification (OS), Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) or XSL Transformation (XSLT). One use for XSLT is to transform well-formed XML document to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) for viewing on web browsers.

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