THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

Hyper-Text Markup Language

HTML: Hyper-Text Markup Language

What is hyper-text?

a document that contains links to other documents (and text, sound, images...)
links may be actuated automatically or on request
linked documents may replace, be inlined, or create a new window
most combinations are supported by HTML

What is a markup language?

a notation for writing text with markup tags
the tags indicate the structure of the text
tags have names and attributes
tags may enclose a part of the text

The start of the HTML for this page, with text, tags, and attributes:

<table width="99%"> <tr> <td align=left> <a href="../index.html"> <img src="../home.gif" border=0> </a> <a href="../info.html"> <img src="../info.gif" border=0> </a> <td align=right> <a href="index.html"> <img src="../left.gif" border=0> </a> <a href="index.html"> <img src="../up.gif" border=0> </a> <a href="motivation.html"> <img src="../right.gif" border=0> </a> </td> </tr> </table> <p> <h1>Hyper-Text Markup Language</h1> What is <b>hyper-text</b>? <ul> <li>a document that contains <b>links</b> to other documents (and text, sound, images...) <li>links may be <b>actuated</b> automatically or on request <li>linked documents may <b>replace</b>, be <b>inlined</b>, or create a <b>new</b> window <li>most combinations are supported by HTML </ul>