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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 17:55:07 EDT
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I'll try to catch up on this now.  Let's see if I'm doing it right.
I grabbed the HTML distribution and edited the node.  To be sure
the version of the original is indicated I stuck it in a phony
attribute;

<HTML version=html-spec-19940613.tar>

The revisions are in two places:  first, to fill out the document
title and complete the reference implied by stating that this
is version 2.0 of the doc.  (What are you counting as v1.0?)
Second, to remove language about proposed features.  All such 
features belong in HTML 3.0, not in this document.  All nodes
relating to these features should be removed, too.  (my opinion,
anyway)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3O//DTD WWW HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML version=html-spec-19940613.tar>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)</TITLE><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT"
HREF="IETF-Draft-Disclaimer.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="AndMIME.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="Intro.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="Text.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="Tags.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="Entities.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="DeclHeading.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="DTDHeading.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="Security.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="Acknowledgements.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="References.html"><LINK
REL="SUBDOCUMENT" HREF="Authors.html"></HEAD>

<BODY>

<H1><A REV="SUBDOCUMENT" NAME="z20"
HREF="HTML_TOC.html">Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)</A></H1>

<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><EM>An SGML Application Conforming to International Standard
ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language </EM>

</BLOCKQUOTE>

<H2>About of this Document</H2>

<P>This document describes the current practice and current proposals
for future standardisation of HTML, as a basis for review and
enhancement.

<P>The document is a draft form of a standard for interchange
of information on the network which is proposed to be registered
as a MIME (RFC1521) content type.

<P>Please send comments to connolly@hal.com or the discussion
list www-html@info.cern.ch.

<H3>Version</H3>

<P>This is version 2.0 of this document,
(released $Date: 1994/06/13 22:50:44 $) INSERT TITLE and
reference to PREVIOUS VERSION. It introduces forms for
user input of information, and adds a distinction between levels
of conformance. Level 0 is the minimum conformance level.
Level 1 includes phrase-level markup and images.
Level 2 includes forms. 

<P>The latest version of this document is currently available
in hypertext on the World-Wide Web as

<PRE>
http://www.hal.com/%7Econnolly/html-spec
</PRE>

<H2>Abstract</H2>

<P><A NAME="z14">HyperText Markup Language</A> (HTML) can be
used to represent

<UL>

<LI>Hypertext news, mail, online documentation,
and collaborative hypermedia;

<LI>Menus of options;

<LI>Database query results;

<LI>Simple structured documents with inlined graphics.

<LI>Hypertext views of existing bodies of information
</UL>

<P>The World Wide Web (W3) initiative links related information
throughout the globe. HTML provides one simple format for providing
linked information, and all W3 compatible programs are required
to be capable of handling HTML. W3 uses an Internet protocol
(Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP), which allows transfer representations
to be negotiated between client and server,
the result being returned in an extended MIME message.
HTML is therefore just one, but an important one,
of the representations used with W3.

<P>HTML is proposed as a MIME content type.

<P>HTML refers to the <A NAME="z21"
HREF="References.html#z7">URI</A> specification RFCxxxx.

<P>Implementations of HTML parsers and generators can be found
in the various <A NAME="z22"
HREF="References.html#z10">W3</A> servers and browsers,
in the public domain W3 code, and may also be built using various
public domain SGML parsers such as [SGMLS] .
HTML documents are SGML documents with fairly generic semantics
appropriate for representing information from a wide range of
applications.
</BODY>
</HTML>

-- 
Terry Allen  (terry@ora.com)
Editor, Digital Media Group
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Sebastopol, Calif., 95472