From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 25 15:58:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E46A514D03 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:58:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 44136 invoked by uid 100); 25 Mar 1999 23:58:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Mar 1999 23:58:07 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:58:07 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: .sgml In-Reply-To: <199903252338.QAA12671@freebie.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > > Alternatively, what's the way to read the above files? > > > > > > Wayne M Barnes stabilizer@klentaq1.emergingtech.org > > Standardized Graphics Markup Language (or something close to that). Standard Generalized Markup Language. It's a language for defining text markup languages. No graphics required. *THE* text on it is Goldfarb's "The SGML handbook." > The language of the Web, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), is a > special case of this. The technical term is "application" - HTML is an application of SGML. The definitions of the various HTML versions are written in SGML. > And Extensible Markup Language (XML) seems to be where the world > is headed. XML is another application of SGML; this one defining a subset of SGML simplified enough to be grasped by the authors of the popular web browsers (most of *still* can't properly parse an HTML 2.0 document). Ok, that's the cynics few of XML. The official story is that it's got all the parts of SGML that aren't used by most people taken out, so that an XML parser can be written over the weekend, instead of being a major project in and of itself.