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- Abstract
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- The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used
- to create hypertext documents that are platform independent. HTML
- documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are
- appropriate for representing information from a wide range of
- domains. HTML markup can represent hypertext news, mail,
- documentation, and hypermedia; menus of options; database query
- results; simple structured documents with in-lined graphics; and
- hypertext views of existing bodies of information.
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- HTML has been in use by the World Wide Web (WWW) global information
- initiative since 1990. This specification roughly corresponds to the
- capabilities of HTML in common use prior to June 1994. HTML is an
- application of ISO Standard 8879:1986 Information Processing Text and
- Office Systems; Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
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- The "text/html; version=2.0" Internet Media Type (RFC 1590)
- and MIME Content Type (RFC 1521) is defined by this specification.
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