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International standard or profile
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European standard or profile
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Other specification
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Description
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Structured Text/Document Interchange Standards (continued) |
HTTP
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IETF RFC 1945 / 2616 / 2109 / 2295 / 2617
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Short for HyperText Transfer Protocol, the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web. HTTP defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands.
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HyTime
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ISO/IEC 10744: 1997
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Abbreviation for Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language. HyTime is an SGML application that provides facilities for describing the relationships between different types of data. It provides standardised methods for describing hypertext links, time scheduling, even synchronisation and projection in multimedia and hypermedia documents.
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ODA/ODIF
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ISO 8613
FOD 26
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EN 41509
EN 41515
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Acronym for Open Document Architecture and Interchange Format. It is the interchange standard for business documents. ODA defines an architecture that describes typical business documents in terms of their content and two hierarchical structures: a logical structure and a layout structure. Documents can be interchanged in formatted form (using the layout structure only), in processable form (using the logical structure only) or in formatted-processable form (by interchanging both formats). Both formatting and structural information can be composed of two sets of information: generic data and document specific instructions.
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PDF
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Proprietary standard developed by Adobe Systems Inc.
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Abbreviation for Portable Document Format. It allows pre-formatted pages to be interchanged over a network. Key features in PDF are a set of hotlinks, thumbnail icons of pages, chapter outlines and page annotations.
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Name
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International standard or profile
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European standard or profile
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Other specification
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Description
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Structured Text/Document Interchange Standards (continued) |
PostScript
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Proprietary standard developed by Adobe Systems Inc.
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PostScript is a general-purpose programming language with powerful built-in graphics. It is also a page-description language that includes programming features and can act as an interactive system for controlling displays and printers.
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RTF
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Proprietary standard developed by Microsoft Corporation
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Abbreviation for Rich Text Format. The RTF specification details the ASCII representation required for most of the low-level functions supported by Microsoft’s Word word-processing package. It was originally developed to allow Microsoft Word files to be interchanged between different platforms and has now become one of the most commonly supported interchange formats between proprietary word-processing systems.
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SDIF
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ISO/IEC 9069
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SGML
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ISO/IEC 8879: 1986
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EN 28879
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Abbreviation of Standard Generalised Markup Language, a system for organising and tagging elements of a document. It does not specify any particular formatting; rather, it specifies the rules for tagging elements. These tags can then be interpreted to format elements in different ways. SGML is used widely to manage large documents that are subject to frequent revisions and need to be printed in different formats.
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