AS 3514-1987

Specifies the following: (a) an abstract syntax known as the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The language expresses the description of a document's structure and other attributes, as well as other information that makes the markup interpretable; (b) a reference concrete syntax that binds the abstract syntax to specific characters and numerical values, and criteria for defining variant concrete syntaxes, and (c) conforming documents in terms of their use of components of the language and systems in terms of their ability to process conforming documents and to recognize markup errors in them. The Standard also specifies how data such as images, graphics, or formatted text (not defined by the Standard) can be included in a conforming document. This Standard is identical with and reproduced from ISO 8879:1986.

This International Standard:a) Specifies an abstract syntax known as the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The language expresses the description of a document's structure and other attributes, as well as other information that makes the markup interpretable.b) Specifies a reference concrete syntax that binds the abstract syntax to specific characters and numeric values, and criteria for defining variant concrete syntaxes.c) Defines conforming documents in terms of their use of components of the language.d) Defines conforming systems in terms of their ability to process conforming documents and to recognize markup errors in them.e) Specifies how data not defined by this International Standard (such as images, graphics, or formatted text) can be included in a conforming document.NOTE - This International Standard does not:a) Identify or specify "standard" document types, document architectures, or text structures.b) Specify the implementation, architecture, or markup error handling of conforming systems.c) Specify how conforming documents are to be created.d) Specify the data stream, message handling system, file structure, or other physical representation in which conforming documents are stored or interchanged, or any character set or coding scheme into or from which conforming documents might be translated for such purposes.e) Specify the data content representation or notation for images, graphics, formatted text, etc., that are included in conforming document.Field of ApplicationThe Standard Generalized Markup Language can be used for documents that are processed by any text processing or word processing system. It is particularly applicable to:a) Documents that are interchanged among systems with differing text processing languages.b) Documents that are processed in more than one way, even when the procedures use the same text processing language.Documents that exist solely in final imaged form are not within the field of application of this International Standard.