This International Standard specifies the semantics and syntax of DXL. DXL is a language for exchanging tree-structured charts among CASE tools.

DXL is applicable to:

• exchanging ISO/IEC 8631 compliant tree-structured charts (examples of which are shown in annex A (informative) of ISO/IEC 863 1);
• exchanging program flowcharts defined in ISO/IEC 5807 if they are well-structured and don't have data defined in ISO/IEC 5807; and
• describing procedure oriented algorithms.

This International Standard does not specify:

• graphical information about a chart, such as the shape, size, and location of symbols;
• configuration information of a chart, such as its version, author, and tile name; or
• information about the data used in the algorithm described by DXL, such as its structure, reading and writing, and declaration.