To the best of my knowledge, there is no information on DSSSL freely available.
It is still in draft - ISO/IEC DIS (Draft International Standard) 10179. It is mentioned in the bibliography by Robin Cover at the following site. The FOSI
standard is available from ftp.ifi.uio.no in /pub/SGML/CALS. It is in the form
of a specification though - not all that easy to read.
Whilst I havn't seen the August version of <TAG> yet, I would imagine
that this would be the best place to start re information about FOSI if you
can lay your hands on a copy.
Steve Heaney.
In article 745816283snx@sgml.com, brian@sgml.com (Brian E. Travis) writes:
>
>In article <24oco5$aab@mozart.amil.jhu.edu> sws@ishtar.med.jhu.edu writes:
>
> >
> > Can anyone point a novice to information on DSSSL (Document
> > Style Semantics and Specification Language) and/or FOSI
> > (Format Output Specification Instance) standards? Is there
> > any material available on the net? (An Archie search for
> > "*SGML*", "*DSSSL*", "*DIS*10179*", or "*FOSI*"
> > failed to turn up anything.)
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
>
>I'm not aware of any material on the network, but we just
>published a good, brief introduction to FOSIs in the August, 1993
>issue of <TAG> The SGML Newsletter. The article was written by
>Paul "Mr. FOSI" Grosso. Paul is the chairman of the OS/FOSI/DSSSL
>ad hoc sub-committee of the CALS Electronic Publishing Committee.
>
>The article is available as part of our back-issue program. I
>hope this helps.
>
>Brian.
>
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