The formatting system described here (ST_NumberFormat) is not clear. It lacks support for Armenian, Tamil, Greek alphabetic, Ethiopic and Khmer numerations, all in use today, as well as the various historical systems still used by scholars.

Use a more flexible, extensible, generative approach to numeration, such as that used by the W3C’s XSLT standard in their xsl:number support

2.18.66 te

1771(1778)

Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment CO-0132 (Modified: 2008-01-10) Agreed; we should provide a mechanism to allow users to specify their own custom defined numbering list. The following changes will be made: In Part 4, §2.18.66, page 1,771, add a new enumeration value to ST_NumberFormat: Enumeration Value Description custom (Custom Defined Number Format) Specifies a custom number format using the parent element’s attribute to reference a number format in the same way as the XSLT format attribute (W3C, 1999). In Part 4, §2.9.18, page 797, replacing line 25: When a document has a custom number format specified by the format attribute, it shall use the referenced number format. If the referenced number format cannot be resolved as a number format the consumer shall use the number format specified by the value of the val attribute. If the corresponding value of the val attribute is custom , the result is implementation-defined. If this element is omitted, the level shall be assumed to be of type decimal . In Part 4, §2.18.66, page 1,778, before line 13: <enumeration value="chicago"/> The value custom will also be added to the ST_NumberFormat in wml.xsd. In Part 4, §2.9.18, page 798, add the following attributes to element numFmt: Attributes Description Format (Custom Defined Number Format) Specifies a custom number format using the syntax defined by the XSLT 1.0 format attribute (W3C, 1999), This format shall be used for all numbering in the parent object. [Example: A value of &#x30A2; indicates that a consumer shall use Katakana Attributes Description numbering. end example] The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_String simple type (§2.18.89). Part 4, In the (yet to be added) Normative References: W3C. XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0. November 16, 1999. http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116. Similar Comments: BR-0033 , CL-0136 , DE-0080 , FR-0327 , GB-0279 , GR-0056 , IN-0024 , IR-0035 , MY-0011 , US-0112 , VE-0042