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At 03:10 PM 3/15/02, Mike Champion wrote:
>Also, a factual/historical question -- Wasn't HTML more or less
>"invented from scratch" and SGML used to legitimize it
>post hoc?
The HTML markup vocabulary, as I understand it, was based on the IBM GMLDPS
(or whatever it was called) that Anders Berglund had implemented at CERN;
Tim's innovations were HTTP, URLs, and <a>. The rest of the HTML (a/k/a
HTML 1.0) markup was based on this simple SGML markup.
~Chris
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DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training
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