level II languages

1. The HTML language

Before becoming what HTML is, the Web began at CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) where Tim Berners-Lee developed and utilized HTML with the client software to enable information sharing on a multi-platform network.  HTML was specifically developed to use along with the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to encode documents for display on the World Wide Web.  HTML stqnds for HyperText Markup Language.  HTML is the lingua franca for publishing hypertext, which means web pages, on the World Wide Web.  It is a non-proprietary format, and can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text editors to sophisticated WYSIWYG authoring tools (What You See Is What You Get). HTML is defined in the HTML Standard, currently Version 4.0x.  HTML standards are recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C.  HTML is a markup language which means that it is NOT a programming language.  HTML cannot be used to write programs.  The term "markup language" is a term that orginated in the publishing industry. When an editor uses a blue pencil and makes a paragraph mark he or she is using another form of a markup language.  The symbol < p > is an example of the HTML "tag" used to begin a paragraph.  These few HTML lines, read by a web navigator, will look like the paragraph displayed below.

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< P class = h 2 >2. The new languages< /P > < P class = p >

< P class = p >Further improvements of HTML are XML, XHTML, DHTML langages : The Extensible Markup Language (XML) family is the new universal format for structured documents and data on the web. The main improvement of this new language family is its ability to communicate with databases. < / P >

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As you can see,  the contents of the page, the English language text, in not separated from the content HTML language.  That means both languages are needed to write HTML hypertext web pages.  Therefore creating web pages may be difficult for physicians who don’t usually have any experience of HTML.  To resolve this problem we propose to use Microsoft PowerPoint or WYSIWYG web editors (What You See Is What You Get) or Zope to create web pages.  Microsoft PowerPoint and WYSIWYG web editors are able to generate the HTML code automatically.  In Zope thing are more subtle: the content is split from the contents making it possible to write simple text.

2. The new languages

Further improvements of HTML are XML, XHTML, DHTML langages:  The Extensible Markup Language (XML) family is the new universal format for structured documents and data on the web. The main improvement of this new language family is its ability to communicate with databases.

Figure 7a. HTML code hypertext Page

Figure 7b. The same above HTML page displayed by MS Internet explorer