Preface

Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).

This Standard supersedes CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC TR 23272-07 (adoption of ISO/IEC TR 23272:2006). At the time of publication, ISO/IEC TR 23272:2011 is available from ISO and IEC in English only.

Scope

This Technical Report is intended as an aid for understanding the libraries specified in ISO 23271 (ECMA-335), Partition IV: Profiles and Libraries. That Partition includes a machine-readable specification, in XML, of the types that comprise the standard libraries. This Technical Report, in companion files, provides the following items, which help to form a traceable chain from the normative XML specification to a portable, printable representation of its contents:

1. Tool Source Code: A program written in the C programming language, XML Style-sheet Language (XSL), and using the facilities of the Microsoft? .NET Framework and Microsoft? Office to convert the XML into files viewable using Microsoft? Word. This program, initially provided by Intel Corporation and updated by the CLI editor for this edition, can be modified to produce other views of the XML.

2. .DOC Files: These are the files produced by running the tool mentioned above on the XML from Partition IV. The Ecma task group TC49/TG3 used similar files (produced using earlier versions of this tool run against earlier versions of the XML) as the primary means of reviewing the XML.

3. .PDF Files: These files are produced from the Microsoft? Word files using the Adobe? Acrobat?program. They are viewable on a wide range of computer systems and printable on a range of computer output devices. In most cases, they will appear visually identical regardless of the means used to render them.