This part of ISO/IEC TR 9573 defines the "ISO Central Secretariat SGML application" (i.e. elements required, generic identifiers, attributes, and their structure) for International Standards and Technical Reports. Annex A contains the formal SGML Document Type Definition (DTD).
The specifications in this document refer to
working drafts;
committee drafts;
draft International Standards;
International Standards;
Technical Reports;
International Standardized Profiles [JTC 1].
It does not cover supplements (technical corrigenda and amendments).
The application includes features that have been added to permit its use by other interested standardization bodies. The formal DTD has been divided into a common part and a specific part in order to ease its use by others.
NOTE 1 Differences are mainly found in the front matter.
A procedure will be developed to allow consultation of other interested standardization bodies regarding future amendments to the DTD.
It is intended that the application be implemented through an SGML-sensitive editor when used by project editors, project leaders, and secretariats for working drafts during the development of a standard and for submission of these documents to the ISO Central Secretariat for publication. In such an implementation, prompting by more meaningful names than element names (restricted to 8 characters) will be available, as well as on-line help both for the different elements and for rules contained in the ISO/IEC Directives.