In 1985, a draft proposal for an international standard was published and the international SGML Users' Group was founded in the UK by Joan Smith, who became its first president. It provides several document formats through SGML DTD s, like TEL Lite. Increasing importance of creation, distribution, and access of information Problems in word processors - Problems arise when moving a document between systems. About descriptive markup Markup means coded tagging of text to indicate structure by Merriam-Webster Descriptive markup describes what element in a document, but provides no information on how to processes those elements 6.SGML Example Blue text is SGML tagging. Green indicates attribute names and values.
Black text is content.
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