SGML

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1. SGML - Noun

2. SGML - Proper noun

Meaning

(computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted

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If GML was an infant, SGML is the bright youngster who far exceeds expectations and made its parents too proud, but XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape. Erik Naggum

Although full SGML allows implicit markup and some other kinds of tags, the XML specification (s4.3.1) states: Each XML document has both a logical and a physical structure. Source: Internet

Applications Document markup languages defined using SGML are called "applications" by the standard; many pre-XML SGML applications were proprietary property of the organizations which developed them, and thus unavailable in the World Wide Web. Source: Internet

A report on an early implementation of a parser for basic SGML, the Amsterdam SGML Parser, citation notes the DTD-grammar in SGML must conform to a notion of unambiguity which closely resembles the LL(1) conditions and specifies various differences. Source: Internet

Although DSSSL continued in use within the shrinking SGML field, XSL was very soon in use more extensively, and by more coders, than DSSSL had ever achieved. Source: Internet

An SGML document may be composed from many entities (discrete pieces of text). Source: Internet

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