本标准阐述了用于验证SGML系统一致性的测试套件的构造和使用。它的规定帮助那些构建测试套件的人，那些构建SGML系统并由这些套件进行评估的人，以及那些在选择SGML工具的过程中检查SGML系统在测试套件上的性能的人。

This standard addresses the construction and use of test suites for verifying conformance of SGML systems. Its provisions assist those who build test suites, those who build SGML systems to be evaluated by such suites, and those who examine an SGML system's performance on a test suite as part of the process of selecting an SGML tool.