NOTE: These slides have not been updated since 2003. They have been superseded by the book An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies Addison-Wesley, and the accompanying online material. Please see http://www.brics.dk/ixwt/ for more information. Anders Møller and Michael Schwartzbach, February 2006

THE XML REVOLUTION  -  TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

From logical to physical structure

• h2: "this is a header at level 2"
• em: "this text should be emphasized"
• ul: "this is a list of items"

• "this header is centered and written in Times-Roman in size 28pt"
• "this text is italicized"
• "these list items are indented 7mm and use pink elephants for bullets"

HTML	hello.html	44 bytes
GIF	hello.gif	32,700 bytes

The HTML developers responded with more and more physical layout tags.

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