On Mon, 9 Aug 1993 12:23:18 CDT James Do said:
>This is a query in regards to registering character entities in the
>Latin-based Vietnamese writing system, for use with SGML and TEI.
>
>Recently, the document TCVN 5712:1993 (VSCII) was approved ...
>Please let me know the naming conventions and procedure for registering
>these additional character entities for use with ISO 8879 (SGML).
>Thanks in advance for your help.
 
The methods for creating formal declarations of character sets and
entity sets for use with TEI documents are described in chapter WD of
document TEI P2, on the TEI Writing System Declaration.  This chapter
has, unfortunately, not yet been published, but should be out within
the next few weeks.
 
The TEI places no restrictions on the naming conventions for entities
beyond those placed by SGML itself; in general, it is probably good
practice to use only the letters A-Z and a-z, the ten Arabic digits,
hyphen, and full stop (dot) in names.  The reference concrete syntax
also restricts name length to eight characters; the TEI does not make
such a restriction.
 
If you do create a writing system declaration based on TCVN 5712,
you would do us a great favor by sending it to the TEI (use my address);
we will make it available on our file server, along with the writing
system declarations defined by the TEI itself.
 
 
-C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
 ACH / ACL / ALLC Text Encoding Initiative
 University of Illinois at Chicago