Description of FMV Grund-DTD

# DESCRIPTION OF FMV GRUND-DTD
version 1.10

## Table of Contents

### Executive Overview

### Introduction

### Background and vision

This chapter gives the background to FMV Grund-DTD by describing the visions of FMV CALS Office for future information handling.

### Basic concepts

FMV Grund-DTD is based on a few basic principles:

- It must be highly content-oriented
- It must organise the information into small modules
- There must be a close connection between information modules and objects in a materiel breakdown structure
- No information should be duplicated, information should be stored once, and then be re-used wherever it's needed (within reasonable limits)
- HyTime syntax is used for all links

### FMV Grund-DTD overview

In this section, a technical overview of FMV Grund-DTD is given. It is divided in three conceptual parts:

- The principles for design and development that has been used in the project: Design and development principles
- The general structure of the DTD, based on information types: Information types in the DTD
- Highlights on specific areas of the DTD:
  - Deciding the level of granularity
  - Tables
  - Blocking of information
  - HyTime and links
  - Versions and variants

### Detailed description of the DTD

### Appendix B: Link example

## Download information

FMV Grund-DTD is available as

- ASCII-files
  - The SGML-declarations: fmvgrund.dcl
  - and the main dtd-file: fmvgrund.dtd
  - and finally the project definable attribute values: projdef.ent
- Zip-archive DTD files and entities (25k)
- or tar file DTD files and entities (23k)

Test files

- Zip-archive Test files (416k)
- Tar file Test files (416k)

The documentation of FMV Grund-DTD is available as PostScript files:

- Zip-archive Postscript documentation (888k)
- Tar file Postscript documentation (872k)

and as HTML files including illustrations:

- Zip-archive HTML documentation (1016k)
- Tar file HTML documentation (656k)

Furthermore, the overhead slides for FMV Grund-DTD presentations are available in native format (powerpoint 4.0):
OH-slides (240k)

A printed version of the documentation of FMV Grund-DTD can be ordered from

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