(1) Revisable logical documentIn the distributed creation of documents, in particular, the interchange of forms (1) and (2) documents are indispensable. HTML or SGML/XML is enough to support the requirements for the interchange of form (1) documents.
(2) Revisable document with formatting information
(3) Formatted form document
NOTE 1: HTML - Hypertext Markup LanguageFor HTML processing systems which include pre-defined formatting specifications, HTML could support the interchange of form (2) documents to some extent. When more complicated formatting specifications are required, XSL or DSSSL will be expected.
NOTE 2: SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
NOTE 3: XML - Extensible Markup Language
NOTE 4: XSL - Extensible Style LanguageForm (3) documents can be described by PDF or PDL, the implementation of which is already available. When using PDF documents, we can interchange them with compressed data.
NOTE 5: DSSSL - Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
NOTE 6: PDF - Portable Document File
NOTE 7: PDL - Page Description Language
The documents interchanged in the Internet environment are often required to be a multilingual mixture, i.e., described using multiple languages within a paragraph, a page or a document. In order to distinguish these documents, we should call them real multilingual documents. A typical example is a participant list of an online meeting, where each participant should be described in his or her own language/script.
The real multilingual documents must be rendered and represented according to appropriate multilingual formatting. It means that those documents should be created and treated with the following considerations:
(1) coded character set including multilingual repertoiresFor implementation, the following issues should be discussed as future topics:
(2) font set required for multilingual rendering
(3) style specification for multilingual rendering
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