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... create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to
another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics
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... Processing Text and Office Systems; Standard Generalized Markup
Language" (SGML). The HTML Document Type Definition (DTD) is a formal
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This specification governs the syntax of HTML documents and aspects
of the behavior of HTML user agents ...
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A document is a conforming HTML document if:
* It is a conforming SGML ...
... ISO-2022-JP'
character encoding scheme can be used for HTML
documents, since its repertoire is a subset of the
[ISO-10646] repertoire. The critical ...
... The HTML DTD defines a standard HTML document type and several
variations, by way of feature test entities. Feature test entities
are declarations in the HTML ...
... For example, in order to preserve the structure of a
document, an editing user agent may translate HTML
documents to the recommended subset, or it may require
that the documents be in the recommended subset for
import.
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... user agent conforms to this specification if:
* It parses the characters of an HTML document into data
characters and markup according to [SGML].
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... processes each character in the ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1 as
specified in 6.1, "The HTML Document Character Set".
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... traverse, resources permitting) all hyperlinks from <A>
elements in an HTML document.
An HTML ...
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* It allows the user to express all form field values
specified in an HTML document and to (attempt to) submit the
values as requests to information services.
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... form data set
a sequence of name/value pairs; the names are given by
an HTML document and the values are given by a user.
HTML document ...
... HTML document and the values are given by a user.
HTML document
An SGML document conforming to this document type
definition ...
... A user agent that conforms to this specification except
for form processing. It may only process level 1 HTML
documents.
must
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... DTD and SGML declaration --
of the HTML document type definition are provided in 9, "HTML Public
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An HTML document is an SGML document; that is, a sequence of
characters organized physically into a set of entities, and logically
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... SGML specifies an abstract syntax and a reference concrete syntax.
Aside from certain quantities and capacities (e.g. the limit on the
length of a name), all HTML documents use the reference concrete
syntax. In particular, all markup characters are in the repertoire of
[ISO-646 ...
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To include comments in an HTML document, use a comment declaration. A
comment declaration consists of `<!' followed by zero or more
comments followed by `>'. Each comment starts ...
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To identify information as an HTML document conforming to this
specification, each document must start with one of the following
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... Example HTML Document ...
... user agents
should be able to preserve all formatting distinctions represented in
an HTML document, and be able to simultaneously present resources
referred to by IMG elements (they may ignore some formatting
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... 1521(-> 2049draft | 2048(-> 4289 | 4288) | 2047draft | 2046draft | 2045draft)[MIME]) may be given to specify the character
encoding scheme used to represent the HTML document as a
sequence of octets. The default value is outside the
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... HTML Document Representation ...
... entity with a content type of `text/html' represents an
HTML document, consisting of a single text entity. The `charset'
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... CRLF, that is, octets 13, 10.
In practice, HTML documents are frequently represented and
transmitted using an end of line convention that depends on the
conventions of the source of the document; frequently, that
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The head of an HTML document is an unordered collection of
information about the document. For example:
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Every HTML document must contain a <TITLE> element.
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... LINK elements may occur in the <HEAD> element of an HTML
document. It has the same attributes as the <A> element (see 5.7.3,
"Anchor ...
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The <NEXTID> element is included for historical reasons only. HTML
documents should not contain <NEXTID> elements.
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... hint for the name to use for a new <A>
element when editing an HTML document. It should be distinct from all
NAME attribute values on <A> elements. For example:
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... line break plus a blank line.
* The horizontal tab character (code position 9 in the HTML
document character set) must be interpreted as the smallest
positive nonzero number of spaces which will leave the
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... Since CDATA declared content has a number of unfortunate interactions
with processing techniques and tends to be used and implemented
inconsistently, HTML documents should not contain <XMP> nor <LISTING>
elements -- the <PRE> tag ...
... An HTML user agent should present the body of an HTML document as a
collection of typeset paragraphs and preformatted text. Except for
preformatted elements ...
... The HTML Document Character Set ...
... heterogeneous networks and operating systems. In the HTML document
character set only three control characters ...
... a table of the code positions of [ISO-8859-1] and the control
characters in the HTML document character set.
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... In addition to general purpose elements such as paragraphs and lists,
HTML documents can express hyperlinks. An HTML user agent allows the
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... a variety of information retrieval protocols to obtain an entity that
represents the resource, such as an HTML document. The fragment
identifier, if present, refers to some view on, or portion of the
resource.
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... address of the head anchor. If the
representation is another HTML document, navigation may begin again
with this new document.
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<!-- <HTML> HTML Document -->
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The HTML document type was designed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN as
part of the 1990 World Wide Web project. In 1992, Dan Connolly wrote
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... part of the 1990 World Wide Web project. In 1992, Dan Connolly wrote
the HTML Document Type Definition (DTD) and a brief HTML ...
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This list details the code positions and characters of the HTML
document character set, specified in 9.5, "SGML Declaration for
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