Acronym for Standard Generalized Markup Language.
From http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci214201,00.html:
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is a standard for how to specify a document markup language or tag set. Such a specification is itself a document type definition (DTD). SGML is not in itself a document language, but a description of how to specify one. It is metadata
SGML is based on the idea that documents have structural and other semantic elements that can be described without reference to how such elements should be displayed. The actual display of such a document may vary, depending on the output medium and style preferences. Some advantages of documents based on SGML are:
The language that this Web browser uses, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), is an example of an SGML-based language. There is a document type definition for HTML (and reading the HTML specification is effectively reading an expanded version of the document type definition).
SGML is based somewhat on earlier generalized markup languages developed at IBM, including General Markup Language (GML) and ISIL.
XML is a simplified version of SGML when the discovered that noone understood SGML, and only used a handful of features.
12 pages link to SGML:
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