scope:

This Recommendation is intended to harmonize the application environment for declarative content for interactive TV. It specifies common elements, media types and APIs at the syntactic level of the declarative application environment to satisfy regional application requirements for the four standards: ACAP-X [ATSC A/101], BML [ARIB STD-B24], Ginga-NCL [ABNT 15606-2] [ABNT 15606-5] and DVB-HTML[ETSI TS 102 322] [ETSI TS 102 812]. This Recommendation is divided into six annexes. Annex A describes the common core for XHTML-related technologies of the four standards. Annex B describes additional functionality outside the common core for BML. Annex C describes additional functionality outside the common core for ACAP-X. Annex D describes additional functionality outside the common core for DVB-HTML. The format described in Annex E is intended as the intermediate format for translation between formats including the common core and the standards covered in this Recommendation. The format described in Annex F is a framework to bind content authored in multiple formats into single content.

It is noted that there are other formats such as ETSI MHEG-5 [b-ETSI ES 202 184], which contain declarative functions that are not covered in this Recommendation. However, the migration from environments in current use to the harmonized environment is assisted by the identification of a common core and translation using the intermediate format.