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Abstract
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
can be used to represent
- Hypertext news, mail, online documentation,
and collaborative hypermedia;
- Menus of options;
- Database query results;
- Simple structured documents with
inlined graphics.
- Hypertext views of existing bodies
of information
The World Wide Web (W3) initiative
links related information throughout
the globe. HTML provides one simple
format for providing linked information,
and all W3 compatible programs are
required to be capable of handling
HTML. W3 uses an Internet protocol
(Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP),
which allows transfer representations
to be negotiated between client and
server, the result being returned
in an extended MIME message. HTML
is therefore just one, but an important
one, of the representations used
with W3.
HTML is proposed as a MIME content
type.
HTML refers to the URL specification
of RFCxxxx.
Implementations of HTML parsers and
generators can be found in the various
W3 servers and browsers, in the public
domain W3 code, and may also be built
using various public domain SGML
parsers such as [SGMLS] . HTML is
an SGML document type with fairly
generic semantics appropriate for
representing information from a wide
range of applications. It is more
generic than many specific SGML applications,
but is still completely device-independent.
In this document
This document contains the following
parts:
- Vocabulary
- used in this document,
degrees of imperative.
- HTML and MIME
- with discussion of
character sets.
- HTML and SGML
- and the relationship
between them, and Structured text
: an introduction for beginners to
SGML.
- HTML Elements
- A list with description,
example, and typical rendering.
- HTML Entities
- Entities used to describe
characters.
- The HTML DTD
- The text of the SGML
DTD for HTML
- Link relationship values .
- A provisional
list. Not part of the standard.
- Registration Authority
- The authority
for extending lists of valid vales.
- Acknowledgements
- and a change history
of the document
- References
- to related documents
- Authors addresses
- Contact information.
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