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Glossary of Terms
Pasted from HTML 2.0 spec, this is now under revision ...
The HTML specification uses these words with precise meanings:
attribute
A characteristic quality of an element, other than type or content.
browser
A tool used to read electronic books.
document
For the purposes of this standard, an HTML instance.
element
A component of the hierarchical structure defined by the document type definition; it is identified in a document instance by descriptive markup, usually a start-tag and an end-tag.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language.
HTTP
A generic stateless object-oriented protocol, which may be used for
many similar tasks by extending the commands, or "methods", used. For
example, you might use HTTP for name servers and distributed
object-oriented systems, With HTTP, the negotiation of data
representation allows systems to be built independent of the development
of new representations. For more information see:
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/Overview.html
markup
Text added to the data of a document to convey information about it. There are four different kinds of markup: descriptive markup (tags), references, markup declarations, and processing instructions.
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions as defined in Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies, 09/23/1993. (Pages=81) (Format=.txt, .ps) (Obsoletes RFC1341) (Updated by RFC1590).
representation
The encoding of information for interchange. For example, HTML is a representation of hypertext.
rendering
Formatting and presenting information to human readers.
SGML
Standard Generalized Markup Language as defined in ISO 8879:1986, Information Processing Text and Office Systems.
SGMLS
An SGML parser by James Clark, jjc@jclark.com, derived from the ARCSGML parser materials which were written by Charles F. Goldfarb. The source is available at ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/SGML/SGMLS.
tag
Descriptive markup. There are two kinds of tags; start-tags and end-tags.
