HTML
The Internet has become an established medium for information retrieval and exchange. This medium was a natural platform for a hypertext service, linking documents around the world into a World Wide Web of information. But a tagging language was needed to provide the linking mechanism, and to apply some basic text formatting to the document containing these links.
The HTML language was developed to meet this need. Although the syntax of SGML was largely adopted by HTML, its principles were not. Only in later incarnations was HTML made fully compatible, and could then be described as an application of SGML (and defined by a suitable DTD). Although a standards committee is responsible for the development of HTML, vendors of the most popular ...
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