Next Generation HTML: Markup Languages
June 7th 1998
The Markup section is the heart of our diagram because it is the
most fundamental part. This includes HTML (HyperText Markup
Language), XML (eXtensible Markup Language), and SGML (Standard
Generalized Markup Language), listed from most simple on the left
(HTML) to most complex on the right (SGML). The color code
tells us that both HTML and XML are full-fledged W3C
Recommendations, but SGML is not a specification controlled by
the W3C. XML is positioned between HTML and SGML; it is more
complicated than HTML but less complex than SGML.
HTML
is covered in depth by WDVL. Our XML area is growing each month.
A central reference for Markup Languages is the
W3C HyperText Markup Language
home page. As we reported in the
WDVL URLy Bird section, on May 4-5, 1998,
a special workshop was held for W3C members called
"Shaping the
Future of HTML". Watch for upcoming information from
the W3C about a new version of HTML (which will co-exist
with XML, Style Sheets, RDF, SMIL and other languages).
Next Generation HTML: The Big Picture
Next Generation HTML: The Big Picture
Next Generation HTML: Scripting Efforts
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