HTML_And_XML

HTML And XML HTML Standards and XML The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. HTML can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text editors - you type it in from scratch- to sophisticated WYSIWYG authoring tools. Additionaly, people still prefer to type the HTML code manually by the use of Window’s Notepad or Macintosh’s SimpleText. Throughout this paper I will be talking about the standards of HTML,how its supplement, XML, has evolved, and why XML is becoming more popular. First and foremost, when creating a website with the use of HTML, people should know the simple standards and guidelines. The fundamental reason for HTML standards compliance is to ensure that you use only those elements and structures that are likely to be understood by the widest range of user agents (Richmond, 2003). For instance, if I were to speak English while in Japan, most likely they will not be able to understand what I am saying. Likewise, if you use proprietary dialects html, xml, 2003, web, standards, online, language, tags, markup, dec, people, document, while, users, standard, make, documents, business, browsers, applications, very, understand, type, tools, technology, simple, should, richmond, range, possible, one, need, important, images, hypertext