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ISO update

 international standards for document description and processing
 Goldfarb, Charles F. 
 
 Charles F.  Goldfarb
 Principal
  California 
 Information Management Consulting 
 Saratoga 
 USA 
Information Management Consulting,  Saratoga  California USA email: charles@sgmlsource.com; charles@xmlbooks.com
 Biography
 Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb - Dr. Goldfarb invented the SGML language in 1974 and later led the team that developed it into the International Standard on which both HTML and XML are based. He serves as Editor of the Standard (ISO 8879) and as a consultant to developers of SGML and XML applications and products. While at IBM Dr. Goldfarb led the project that invented SGML's precursor, GML, in 1969, for which he coined the term "markup language". He edits Prentice-Hall's "Definitive XML Series from Charles F. Goldfarb" and co-authored "The XML Handbook, Second Edition". He has been profiled in Forbes and other publications and is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and holder of the PIA Gutenberg Award. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia College.
 Abstract
 This sessions provides an update on the work of the ISO committee dedicated to the SGML family of standards.
 The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has a full-fledged sub-committee (SC34) dedicated to the SGML family of standards. This session reports on the status of SC34 standards, including SGML (basis for XML), DSSSL (basis for XSL), HyTime (important basis for XPath, XLink, and XPointer), Topic Maps ISMID, and other related standards. As SC34 is meeting prior to the conference, the most current information will be presented at this session.
 SC34 is part of ISO/IEC JTC1. The URL for its work is at http://www.jtc1.org/Navigation.asp?Area=Structure&Mode=Browse&SubComm=SC*space*34&x=7&y=6
 Additional information can aslo be found at http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/sc34oldhome.htm .
 ISUG - The international SGML/XML Users' Group also provides a website with information on the ISO standards at http://www.isgmlug.org/ and the Robin Cover SGML/XML site is also another excellent source of information http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ .
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