STS Viewer
A simple preview of an STS XML document, rendering its structures and text contents into a simple layout for proofing.
For an alternative analytic view, in support of data quality assurance and assessment, see the STS Checker utility application.
Load your STS XML below: the application does its best to process and display it. All processing is in your browser.
Feedback on this demonstration is welcome on the public Github Issues board. Or contribute to community discussions on the public NISO STS List mailing list.
About NISO STS
NISO STS (ANSI/NISO Z39.102-2017, Standards Tag Suite) is a standardized set of XML tags supporting the creation, maintenance and publication of standards and guidelines documents. Based on work at ISO (International Standards Organization) and the US National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM/NCBI), NISO STS benefits from participation and adoption by standards development organizations (SDOs), publishers, information service providers, data aggregators, archives and libraries.
More resources on this format can be found at the NISO STS Supporting Materials web site.
To test this demonstration, a couple of public examples may be tried:
- NISO STS Tag Library in NISO STS
- Small example of IETF RFC in NISO STS
- Or use your own STS XML or best guess (this application does not validate against a schema)
In this demonstration, markers such as Element indicate elements that have not yet been coded in the transformation. Over time as we add features, these will be seen less frequently.
Limitations: basic structures and fallback processing are provided for, but areas are still in need of development. Your examples of valid STS are welcome as use cases for refinement and new features. See the project repository documentation and its Issues board.
NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, is a nonprofit membership organization that publishes technical standards related to information management, processing, and exchange. NISO has no affiliation with NIST, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, a Bureau of the US Department of Commerce. This project is developed at NIST in support of public use of a non-proprietary encoding technology illustrating the power of external specification in combination with declarative design principles.
This viewer application is maintained on Github, with documentation.
Is this site a demonstration, a service or both?
This application is provided by NIST as an educational demonstration of how a service can be created, not as a fully operational service.
No guarantees or warranties are provided by NIST that the demo service will be maintained, updated, upgraded, or always available. While NIST intends to keep the demonstration running (with project source code available), NIST also reserves the right to stop supporting it, or to remove or rework it, without any prior warning.
The best way to ensure access to the application over the long term is to replicate it. See the project wiki page on Maintenance and Support for more details on how these projects are designed to be standards-based, accessible, portable, adaptable over time and unhindered by practical impediments to wide deployment, either technical or legal.