Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): A Representation of Textual Information and MetaInformation for Retrieval and Interchange

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) can be used to represent Hypertext news, mail, online documentation, and collaborative hypermedia; Menus of options; Database query results; Simple structured documents with inlined graphics. Hypertext views of existing bodies of information The World Wide Web (W3) initiative links related information throughout the globe. HTML provides one simple format for Berners- Lee and Connolly 1 throughout the globe. HTML provides one simple format for providing linked information, and all W3 compatible programs are required to be capable of handling HTML. W3 uses an Internet protocol (Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP), which allows transfer representations to be negotiated between client and server, the result being returned in an extended MIME message. HTML is therefore just one, but an important one, of the representations used with W3. HTML is proposed as a MIME content type. HTML refers to the URL specification of RFCxxxx. Implementations of HTML parsers and generators can be found in the various W3 servers and browsers, in the public domain W3 code, and may also be built using various public domain SGML parsers such as [SGMLS] . HTML is an SGML document type with fairly generic semantics appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. It is more generic than many specific SGML applications, but is still completely device- independent. IN THIS DOCUMENT This document contains the following parts: Vocabulary used in this document, degrees of imperative. HTML and MIME with discussion of character sets. HTML and SGML and the reelationship between them, and Structured text : an introduction for beginners to SGML. HTML Elements A list with description, example, and typical rendering. HTML Entities Entities used to describe characters. The HTML DTD The text of the SGML DTD for HTML Link relationship values . A provisional list. Not part of the standard. Registration Authority The authority for extending lists of ...