Talk:IBM Generalized Markup Language

message: ::GML preceded and was one of the two sources that were used as the basis for the industry-developed Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
There's a statement that GML was "one of two" influences on SGML, but you don't list
the other one; I think you mean the whole RUNOFF inspired line of markup.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.156.15.166 (talk • contribs) 22 June 2006
I too would like to know what the other one is.  I dont think it can be RUNOFF, as it doesnt appear to be a metalanguage. Jayvdb 07:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: one of two

message: The example given shows GML in its default, out-of-the-box configuration. At our installation circa 1986 (and I'm pretty sure this was common) we replaced the start
and end delimiters with < and > to give markup that looked like this:
    Chapter 1:  Introduction
    GML supported hierarchical containers, such as
    
    Ordered lists (like this one),
    Unordered lists, and
    Definition lists
    <eol>
    as well as simple structures.
    Markup minimization (later generalized and formalized in SGML),
    allowed the end-tags to be omitted for the "h1" and "p" elements.
which starts to look a lot more like a direct influence on HTML. GML also had the table tag, the a tag with xref, etc.
91.125.101.51 (talk) 09:29, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, many of the original HTML tags were taken directly from the GML starter set (which, of course, was in use at CERN at the time).  A particularly good 'example' is the <xmp> tag, which is taken directly from the GML :xmp. tag name – which is spelled without the leading 'e' because the 'e' is reserved to indicate end-tags in the GML default syntax.  mfc 20:28, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: re: example and influence on HTML

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