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			Descriptive Markup - 




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Markup that describes the structure and other attributes of a document in a non-system-specific manner, independently of any processing that may be performed on it. In particular, it uses tags to express the element structure. Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency Department of Defense, United States Government "Military Standard 1840-B" 3 November 1992
Related Terms: Descriptive Markup - computer | markup | program | software | standard |

Document Type Declaration -

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A markup declaration that contains the formal specification of a Document Type Definition (DTD). Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency Department of Defense, United States Government "Military Standard 1840-B", 1992
Related Terms: Document Type Declaration - computer | data | document | document type | markup | software | specification | technical data | technical manual |

Hypertext Markup Language -

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A subset of SGML which was developed with a standard DTD for hyperlinked text and graphics accessable on the Internet's World Wide Web. Acronym: HTML Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency
Related Terms: Hypertext Markup Language - document | document type | hyperlink | internet | markup | standard | standard generalized markup language |

Markup -

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Tags that are added to the data of a document in order to convey information about it. it. Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency Department of Defense, United States Government "Military Standard 1840-B" 1992
Related Terms: Markup - descriptive markup | document | hypertext | hypertext markup | parser |

Parser -

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A parser is a specialized software program that recognizes SGML and markup in a document. A parser that reads a DTD and checks and reports on markup errors is a validating SGML parser. A parser can be built into an SGML editor to prevent incorrect tagging and to check Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency Included with permission from: ArborText "Getting Started with SGML", 1992
Related Terms: Parser - computer | document type definition | markup | program | software | standard generalized markup language |

Standard Generalized Markup Language -

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A standard that defines a language for document representation which formalizes markup and frees it of system and processing dependencies. It provides a coherent and unambiguous syntax for describing whatever a user chooses to identify within a document. [ISO 8879, MIL-M-28001, TBITS 14, FIPS 152] "Military Standard 1840-B, 1992. Acronym: SGML Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency
Related Terms: Standard Generalized Markup Language - computer | document | file | internet | markup | parser | standard |


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