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

6 NOTES.

6.1 Intended Use. The use of DTDs and style sheets will allow for preparation of documents in an automated support environment using any or all of the following processes:

a. Creation of a document type declaration or DTD for publication control, if one does not already exist. b. Creation of a style sheet, if one does not already exist, to specify the formatting to be applied to

documents conforming with the document type declaration.

c. Authoring a publication and inserting SGML/XML markup tags. d. Verifcation of correct syntax according to SGML/XML rules.

e. Use of a style sheet and a document type declaration to direct the composition of the document so that the produced (printed or displayed) copy corresponds to the proper format and style.

f. Electronic review of a document, using SGML/XML or an SGML/XML derived presentation format for comments.

g. Generation of a text presentation metafle in a page description language (PDL) to drive the display device, such as a printer or typesetter.

6.2 Acquisition Requirements. Acquisition documents should specify the following:

a. Title, number, and date of the document.

b. Issue of the DoDISS to be cited in the solicitation, and, if required, the specifc issue of individual documents referenced. See paragraph 2.2.1 and paragraph 2.3.

c. Statement regarding mandatory use of standard SGML objects and constructs from the ASRL

pursuant to paragraph 4.4.4.1.

d. Statement regarding submission of new SGML/XML objects and constructs to the ASRL as candidates for registration and inclusion on the ASRL. See paragraph 4.4.4.3.

e. Values of presentation characteristics. See paragraph 4.3.

f. Use of notation declarations not in a detail specifcation. See paragraph 4.4.6.. g. Special features. See paragraph 4.4.7..

h. Guidance regarding conformance inspections, parsing, or other qualifcation requirements. See paragraph 4.4.8.

MIL-STD-40051-1 and -2, Preparation of Digital Technical Information for Multi-Output Presentation of Technical Manuals, MIL-STD-3008, Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) Technical Data Requirements to Support The Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-A), TRADOC Reg 350-70, Systems Approach to Training Management, Processes, and Products, TRADOC Reg 25-36, The TRADOC Doctrinal Literature Program (DLP) and AR 25-30, The Army Publishing Program provide additional information to assist acquisition personnel in determining the options that may need to be placed in the contract or other form of agreement.

6.2.1 Source File Delivery. The DTDs in Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix D, and Appendix E provide the tools to accomplish the acquisition requirements in paragraph 6.1.a., and paragraph 6.1.c., paragraph 6.1.d. above, the result of which is a complete publication source fle, or input fle, together with a document type declaration support fle. Delivery requirements for source fles are in paragraph

4.1.1. It is the source fle to which all subsequent changes and updates will be made to maintain the

publication throughout its operational life. Therefore, the source fle is a mandatory fnal deliverable when this standard is cited in the contract. Source fles containing either the complete text of the publication, or portions of the text, may be delivered as interim products. Through the use of the SGML declaration, the document type declaration, the tag descriptions, style sheet, the delivered source fle will contain the complete intelligence required for subsequent processing.

6.2.2 Support File Deliver. An SGML/XML document type declaration is used in paragraph 6.1.a., paragraph

6.1.b., and paragraph 6.1.c. above. Style sheets provide output styles and formatting specifcations used to accomplish paragraph 6.1.e. in the document preparation process. The document type defnition and the style sheet are support fle delivery requirements which are in paragraph 4.1.2. If a public document type defnition set is used as publicly defned, has been approved as an Army standard, and is resident on the ASRL, it need only be cited with the delivery. However, the text of the document type defnition set support fle will be

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