Meanwhile in the considerably less well attended room next door, Jon Clark gave the technical overview. Sharon proclaimed that after years in development, the final version of the DIS shall be done by December 31. One language controls the transformation while the other controls the style. This allows for the generation of automated data such as index information and a TOC s well as reorder data so that the resulting output only requires styles to be applied. A grove was described as a set of nodes and a node is a set of property assignments, such as property name and property value.
Values can be nodes.
They also both use architectural forms SDQL evolved from HyQ and now replaces it in the HyTime specification. Anders did the second part and went more into the syntax of the language, primarily style. He showed an extremely simple SGML code sample then walked us through the somewhat lengthy scheme code to transform it. It provides a wide range of support, not just support for Unicode and ISO 6429. The DIS is constantly being updated and will continue on a weekly basis until it is complete.