What do rally car racing, knights in shining particle accelerators, and the Godfather all have in common? They are all complicit in the sordid affair that is the history of markup languages. Well, maybe not exactly “sordid,” but it is interesting! Come one, come all, and be regaled with this colorful account of the birth of XML and its predecessors. As the good doctor Carl Sagan once remarked, “You have to know the past to understand the present.”
37. :h1.Chapter 1: Introduction
:p.GML supported hierarchical containers, such as
:ol
:li.Ordered lists (like this one),
:li.Unordered lists, and
:li.Definition lists
:eol.
as well as simple structures.
:p.Markup minimization (later generalized and
formalized in SGML), allowed the end-tags to be
omitted for the "h1" and "p" elements.
67. You can keep your
new-fangled
“inter-web” out of
my SGML, thank
you very much.
68.
69. C.2 Editorial Review Board
This specification was prepared and approved for publication by the W3C SGML
Editorial Review Board (ERB). ERB approval of this specification does not necessarily
imply that all ERB members voted for its approval. At the time it approved this
specification, the SGML ERB had the following members:
1. Jon Bosak, Sun (jon.bosak@sun.com), chair
2. Tim Bray, Textuality (tbray@textuality.com), editor
3. James Clark (jjc@jclark.com), technical lead
4. Dan Connolly (connolly@w3.org), W3C contact
5. Steve DeRose, EBT (sjd@ebt.com)
6. Dave Hollander, HP (dmh@hpsgml.fc.hp.com)
7. Eliot Kimber, Passage Systems (kimber@passage.com)
8. Tom Magliery, NCSA (mag@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
9. Eve Maler, ArborText (elm@arbortext.com)
10. Jean Paoli, Microsoft (jeanpa@microsoft.com)
11. Peter Sharpe, SoftQuad (peter@sqwest.bc.ca)
12. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, U. of Ill. at Chicago (cmsmcq@uic.edu), editor
