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Document Details

Measurement is applied to the paragraph indicating the measurement units used throughout the document.

If a specified unit of measurement is not applicable to the document, then this style may be applied to the text “NOT MEASUREMENT SENSITIVE” or synonymous string. 

DocID is applied to the standard’s ID or designation string. 

Date is applied to the specification date (see Example 1).

Superseding Document

Documents that supersede earlier standards include the label “SUPERSEDING,” which takes the Supersedes paragraph style. 

Supersedes Designation is applied to the designation (or ID) of the standard that is superseded by the document. 

Supersedes Date is applied to the date of the superseded document (see Example 1).

Document Title

Title Prefix is applied to the prefix of the title, which usually indicates the type of document or specification. 

Report Title is applied to the primary title of the document.

The subtitle of the document, if any, appears as a separate paragraph after the main title, and it takes the Report Subtitle paragraph style (see Example 1).

Specification Information

Distribution Info is applied to the paragraph describing the intended audience of the document. 

Contact Info is applied to paragraphs containing the contact information associated with the document (see Example 1).

Example 1: Cover Page

Word Sample

The following example shows the correct title page styling in the Word document from the (possible) styles available on the Title tab of the eXtyles style palette.

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XML Samples

The following XML samples are derived from the previous Word example. All of this content is located in <std-doc-meta> in the <front> of the document.

Document Details

Measurement

Document ID (DocID)

Dates

For standards documents, dates associated with the publication process are generally included in the Word file to be rendered in print. So long as they are correctly styled, eXtyles will automatically identify the various dates associated with the publication and apply the appropriate attribute to the date in the XML file. All of this identification can be done without any special markup in the Word file. The key to this process is the consistent use of wording to identify each date.

eXtyles automatically parses the date into an attribute in the <release-date> element (e.g., iso-8601-date="2017-05-18"). This process is most robust if months are spelled out as words or as abbreviations and years are given as four digits.

Dates given in the form XXXX-XX-XX (e.g., 2012-05-11) will be parsed as YYYY-MM-DD (i.e., 11 May not 5 November). If months are given as digits (e.g., 12-08-2010 or 12-08-10), by default, eXtyles will identify the date as MM-DD-YY(YY) (i.e., U.S. date format; December 8, 2010) and will warn that the date is ambiguous.

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The character used to separate the various elements of the date is reasonably flexible: slashes, colons, hyphens, or periods all enable dates to parse correctly.

If particular dates are not available at the time that the XML is exported, eXtyles will allow either X (e.g. XX-XX-XXXX) or two or more Ys, Ms, and Ds (e.g. MM-DD-YYYY) as placeholders that can later be replaced in the XML once the date is known.

Superseding Document

Document Title

Specification Information

Distribution

Example 2: Cover Page

Another example of the proper use of the (possible) styles available on the Title tab of the eXtyles style palette.

Word Sample

XML Samples

The following XML samples are derived from the above Word example (Example 2). With the exception of agency and agent information, all of this content is located in <std-doc-meta> in the <front> of the document.

Document Details

Document ID (DocID) and Edition

Release Date

Document Title 

Authorization and Subject Group

Publisher Information

Publisher Location

Agency Information

Agent and Agency