WebCGM Version 2.0
OASIS Standard
01 January 2007
Document Identifier:
WebCGM-v2.0
Specification URIs:
Technical Committee:
OASIS CGM Open WebCGM TC
Chair(s):
David Cruikshank, The Boeing Company
Benoit Bezaire, ITEDO
David Cruikshank, The Boeing Company
Lofton Henderson, Individual
Related Work:
This specification updates:
This specification is identical in technical content to:
Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard, defined by ISO/IEC 8632:1999, for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications in technical illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical data visualization, and similar fields. First published (1.0) in 1999 and followed by a second (errata) release in 2001, WebCGM unifies potentially diverse approaches to CGM utilization in Web document applications. It therefore represents a significant interoperability agreement amongst major users and implementers of the ISO CGM standard.
WebCGM 2.0 adds a DOM (API) specification for programmatic access to WebCGM objects, and a specification of an XML Companion File (XCF) architecture, for externalization of non-graphical metadata. WebCGM 2.0, in addition, builds upon and extends the graphical and intelligent content of WebCGM 1.0, delivering functionality that was forecast for WebCGM 1.0, but was postponed in order to get the standard and its implementations to users expeditiously.
The design criteria for WebCGM aim at a balance between graphical expressive power on the one hand, and simplicity and implementability on the other. A small but powerful set of standardized metadata elements supports the functionalities of hyperlinking and document navigation, picture structuring and layering, and enabling search and query of WebCGM picture content.
This document was last revised or approved by the OASIS CGM Open WebCGM TC on the above date. The level of approval is also listed above. Check the current location noted above for possible later revisions of this document. This document is updated periodically on no particular schedule.
This specification was produced jointly by OASIS and W3C and published on 30 January 2007 by both organizations. It is published simultaneously as an OASIS Standard and a W3C Recommendation. The two documents have exactly identical content except for cover page and formatting differences as appropriate to the two organizations.
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2.0 WebCGM Concepts
3.0 WebCGM Intelligent Content
4.0 WebCGM XML Companion File (XCF)
5.0 WebCGM Document Object Model (DOM)
6.0 WebCGM Profile
7.0 Conformance