- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:43:28 -0400
- To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
See: The XML Handbook, Charles F. Goldfarb and Paul Prescod
Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-081152-1, 1998
Chapter 1 Why XML
1.1 Text formatters and SGML
1.1.1 Formatting Markup (typesetting)
1.1.2 Generalized Markup
1.1.2.1 Common document representation (find common language, late 1960s)
1.1.2.2 Customized document types (computers are dumb, they can be trained,
abstractions and rendering, stylesheets, element types,
documents and databases =>structured markup SGML)
1.1.2.3 Rule-based markup (Document Type Definition--DTD, schema,
Standard Generalized Markup Language SGML ISO 8879 1986,
Hytime for hyperlinking, DSSSL for stylesheets)
1.2 HTML and the Web (Tim Berners-Lee 1989, basis an 1978 first published
DTD, from a 1979 IBM manual written by Goldfarb, derived in
turn from work that he and Mosher had done in the early 1970s,
based on SGML advice from Anders Berglund.)
See book for more details.
Regards/Harvey Bingham
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