Sharing SGML/XML document information conformable to business standards

In CALS or EC, it is important to share product information conformable to business standards. This paper proposes a conformance-testing method for authorizing SGML/XML documents to follow business standards about document content constraints, such as standard vocabularies, datatypes, ranges of numerical values and units of measures. This method can promote reliable document sharing in information systems by circulating documents which passed the conformance-test.