MIL-STD-2361 Digital Publications DevelopmentThis standard establishes the Extensible Markup Language XML requirements for digital development, acquisition, and delivery of Army administrative 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. Further, this standard establishes the Standard Generalized Markup Language SGML requirements for digital development, acquisition, and delivery of Army training and doctrine publications. Designated appendices of this standard contain references to, and access instructions for, the 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.

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MIL-STD-2361C

4 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.

4.1 Text markup. Textual material prepared in accordance with this standard, shall be marked up (tagged)

in a manner that conforms to ISO 8879, W3C REC-xml-20001006, CALs compliant, MIL-PRF-28001, and this standard. SGML/XML shall be used:

a. To describe the logical structure and content of Army departmental media in an unambiguous grammar. b. To assure automated quality control over adherence to that structure (parsing).

c. To develop, deliver and store Army departmental media text in the most easily maintained and updated form.

4.1.1 Source File Delivery Requirements. Textual material marked up in accordance with this standard shall be referred to as a source fle. A complete SGML/XML -tagged source fle(s) shall be a mandatory part of each fnal product delivered in accordance with this standard. Delivery of the source fle shall be in accordance with MIL-STD-1840, or as directed by the contracting activity.

4.1.2 Support File Delivery Requirements. When this section of the standard is cited by contract, delivery of DTD and style sheet (created in accordance with the DTD) support fles shall be in accordance with paragraph 4.2 and paragraph 4.3 of this standard, and in compliance with MIL-STD-1840 or the contract.

4.1.3 Output File Delivery Requirements. When this section of the standard is cited by the contract, delivery of an output fle shall be generated from the delivered source fle as directed by the contracting activity.

4.1.4 Interim Document Delivery Requirements. Interim deliverables, if required, shall be specifed in the contract and may include a source fle, output fle, or other specifed format.

4.2 Document Structure. This section establishes requirements for SGML/XML Document Type Defnitions (DTD). A DTD shall be used to defne the organization and logical structure of elements, entities, and attributes allowed in a particular document. It shall also be used to control automated processing functions (such as parsing) that support quality assurance requirements.

4.2.1 Conforming Army Departmental Media. Army departmental media developed in accordance with the functional requirements cited in this standard, and shall conform to the document type declaration set defned in paragraph 4.4.3 of this standard, or as otherwise specifed in the contract. The document type declaration specifed in paragraph 4.4.3 need not be delivered with the tagged text, but shall

be cited by its public and/or system identifer.

4.3 Style Sheet. The style sheet provides a set of formatting characteristic values used to rigorously describe composition processing functions to be performed on the elements of a text document to provide the format style required by a functional specifcation or standard, such as MIL-STD-40051-1 and -2, AR

25-30 or TRADOC Reg 350-70. A style sheet (i.e. FOSI, XSL-T) delivered with the document shall contain values of characteristics for every tag used in the DTD, in every context in which the tag has a unique formatting requirement, and with its attributes if they affect the formatting.

4.3.1 Conforming Publications. Publications encoded in SGML/XML, in accordance with this standard (see paragraph 1.3.1 or paragraph 1.3.2), shall be accompanied by a style sheet compatible with the DTD.

The style sheet incorporates the requirements for output format and style stated in the controlling specifcation or standard.

4.3.2 Output Files. An output fle may be specifed by the contract as an interim deliverable (that is, a deliverable prior to fnal delivery of the SGML/XML -tagged source fle (see paragraph 6.2).) An output fle may also be specifed by the contract as a fnal deliverable in addition to (but not as a substitute for) the SGML/XML tagged source fle.

4.4 Detailed SGML/XML Applications and Requirements.

4.4.1 SGML. Conforming SGML applications shall contain: document type declaration, DTD, document instance, and a style sheet.

4.4.2 XML. XML applications shall contain: document type declaration, DTD, or an XML Schema, document instance and a style sheet.

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