PD 6631:1998

I INTRODUCTION TO THE TECHNICAL GUIDE
    Background
    Purpose
    Summary and roadmap
II MHEG-5: AN OVERVIEW
    Digression on the various parts of MHEG
    The Relationship of MHEG Parts-1 and 5
    Applications and industry requirements
    What is MHEG-5?
    Key features of MHEG-5
    Organisation and structure of the Standard
    MHEG-5 Classes
    The Class structure and hierarchy
    Application domain definition
    Potential Users of MHEG-5
III THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN MHEG APPLICATION
    The formal notation
    A simple example of an MHEG-5 application
    Summary
IV MHEG SYSTEM DESIGN
    The architecture of the system
    List of engine classes
    List of MHEG classes
    Class relations
    The classes - the MHEG engine
    List of classes - the MHEG-5 compliant classes
V IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES
    Implementation Languages
    MHEG Objects - Internal and external forms
    Conformance
    Rigorous and non-rigorous implementation
    Referencing MHEG objects
    Rendering MHEG objects
    Events liks and actions
    MHEG objects and the external environment
    Name spaces and remote calls
    MHEG objects - buffering and storage
    The application domain
VI CONFORMANCE ISSUES
    Conformance and interoperability
    The class implementation
    The application domain definition
    The MHEG-5 engine functionality
VII SUMMARY, FUTURE MHEG WORK AND REFERENCES
    Summary
    Future MHEG work
    References
ANNEX 1 GLOSSARY OF TERMS