Borland® JBuilder™ Developer’s Guide

Structured Graphical Markup Language (SGML)

SGML became an ISO standard in 1986 and has changed little over the years. It was intended to solve the problems created by procedural markup. Applications such as WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, and others each use their own version of markup to describe how a document looks on the printed page. For example, a document created in Microsoft Word is saved with the file extension .doc. The .doc file extension is more than a simple naming convention—it also identifies the type of markup used to re-create the document on the printed page. This process, of re-creating a printed page, is not only tedious but also unfriendly. If you have attempted to use SGML, you more than likely have had experience with these ...