CSE686 - Internet Programming Summer 2003
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Tagged Languages

  1. HTML - HyperText Markup Language
    HTML is a tagged, structured language, designed to deliver text in reasonable formats without the author doing a lot of formatting.

    HTML tags are defined - any tags you enter that are not specified by the HTML DTD will not be rendered by the browser for client viewing.

  2. DTD - Document Type Definition
    A tagged language used to define a set of HTML pages by defining a specific tag structure and values. A DTD is used to ensure that a specific page has the properties specified for the page set governed by the DTD.
  3. CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
    Not a tagged language - a file with a set of rules for formatting HTML code.
  4. XML - eXtensible Markup Language
    a tagged language with user defined tags, used to model data.
  5. XSL - eXtensible Stylesheet Language

  6. VML - Vector Markup Language
  7. mathML - mathematics Markup Language
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