\documentstyle[rfc,fancyheadings,times]{cernman} \lhead[RFC XXX]{June 1993} \chead{Hypertext Markup language} \rhead[June 1993]{RFC XXXX} \lfoot[\thepage]{Berners-Lee and Connolly} \rfoot[Berners-Lee and Connolly]{\thepage} \cfoot{} \pagestyle{fancy} \begin{document} \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{}l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r@{}} Hypertext Markup Language&Tim Berners-Lee, CERN\\ Internet Draft&Daniel Connolly, Atrium Technology Inc.\\ IIIR Working Group&June 1993\\[0.5cm] \end{tabular*} \begin{center} \Large\bf\sf Hypertext Markup Language\\[1cm] \large A Representation of Textual Information and Metainformation\\ for Retrieval and Interchange\\[1cm] \end{center} % -------------------------------------------------------- %\pagenumbering{arabic} \setcounter{page}{1} \section*{Status of this Document}This document is an Internet Draft. Internet Draft. working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its Areas, and its Working Groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet Drafts.\par Internet Drafts are working documents valid for a maximum of six months. Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is not appropriate to use Internet Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as a "working draft" or "work in progress".\par Distribution of this document is unlimited. 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 (RFC1341) content type. Please send comments to timbl@info.cern.ch or the discussion list www-talk@info.cern.ch.\par This is version 1.1 of this specification. This document is available in hypertext on the World-Wide Web as http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/HTML.html \section*{Abstract}HyperText Markup Language (HTML) was created to fill the need to \begin{itemize} \item Connect information entities with hypertext links \item Scale to a world-wide scope \item Provide an experimental platform for collaborative hypermedia \item Represent existing bodies of information by a virtual hypertext view \end{itemize}Among other things HTML can be used to represent \begin{itemize} \item Hypertext news, mail, and online documentation \item Menus of options \item Database query results \item Simple structured documents \end{itemize}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.\par HTML is also suitable for use in news and mail, and itis proposed as a MIME content type. HTML refers to the URL specification of RFCxxxx. Implementations of HTML parsers and generators can be found in the various W3 servers and browsers, in the public domain W3 code, and may also be built using various public domain SGML parsers such as \lbrack SGMLS\rbrack . HTML is an SGML document type with fairly generic semantics appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. It is more generic than many specific SGML applications, but is still completely device-inependent. \chapter{In this document}This document contains the following parts: \begin{itemize} \item Vocabulary used in this document \item HTML and MIME , with discussion of character sets \item HTML and SGML , and Structured text : an introduction for beginners to SGML. \item HTML Elements \item HTML Entities \item The HTML DTD \item Appendix: A list of proposed link relationship values . \item Registration Authority \item References \item Authors addresses \end{itemize} \tableofcontents \section{Vocabulary}This specification uses the words below with the precise meaning given. \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[Representation ] The encoding of information for interchange. For example, HTML is a representation of hypertext. \item[Rendering ] The form of presentation to information to the human reader. \end{DL} \subsection{Imperatives} \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[may ] The implementation is not obliged to follow this in any way. \item[must ] If this is not followed, the implementation does not conform to this specification. \item[shall ] as "must" \item[should ] If this is not followed, though the implementation officially conforms to the standard, undesirable results may occur in practice. \item[typical ] Typical rendering is described for many elements. This is not a mandatory part of the standard but is given as guidance for designers and to help explian the uses for which the elements were intended. \end{DL} \subsection{Notes}Sections marked "Note:" are not mandatory parts of the specification but for guidance only. \subsection{Status of features} \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[Mainstream ] All parsers must recognise these features. Features are mainstream unless otherwise mentioned. \item[Extra ] Standard HTML features which may safely be ignored by parsers. It is legal to ignore these, treat the contents as though the tags were not there. (e.g. EM, and any undefined elements) \item[Obsolete ] Not standard HTML. Parsers should implement these features as far as poosible in order to preverve back-compatibility with oprevious versions of this specification. \end{DL} \chapter{HTML and MIME}The definition of the HTML content subtype is \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[MIME Type name ] text \item[MIME subtype name: ] html \item[Required parameters: ] none \item[Optional parameters: ] charset \end{DL} \section{Character sets}The base character set (the SGML BASESET) for HTML is ISO Latin-1. This is the set refered to by any numeric character references. The actual character set used in the representation of an HTML document may be ISO Latin 1, or its 7-bit subset which is ASCII. There is no obligation for an HTML document to contain any characters above decimal 127. It is possible that a transport medium such as electronic mail imposes constraints on the number of bits in a representation of a document, though the HTTP access protocol used by W3 always allows 8 bit transfer.\par When an HTML document is encoded using 7-bit characters, then the mechanisms of character references and entity references may be used to encode characters in the upper half of the ISO Latin-1 set. In this way, documents may be prepared which are suitable for mailing through 7-bit limited systems. \chapter{HTML and SGML}The HyperText Markup Language is defined in terms of the ISO Standard Generalized Markup Language \lbrack SGML\rbrack . SGML is a system for defining structured document types and markup languages to represent instances of those document types.\par Every SGML document has three parts:\par \begin{itemize} \item An SGML declaration, which binds SGML processing quantities and syntax token names to specific values. For example, the SGML declaration in the HTML DTD specifies that the string that opens a tag is 60;/ and the maximum length of a name is 40 characters. \item A prologue including one or more document type declarations, which specifiy the element types, element relationships and attributes, and references that can be represented by markup. The HTML DTD specifies, for example, that the HEAD element contains at most one TITLE element. \item An instance, which contains the data and markup of the document. \end{itemize}We use the term HTML to mean both the document type and the markup language for representing instances of that document type.\par All HTML documents share the same SGML declaration an prologue. Hence implementations of the WorldWide Web generally only transmit and store the instance part of an HTML document. To construct an SGML document entity for processing by an SGML parser, it is necessary to prefix the text from ``HTML DTD'' on page 10 to the HTML instance.\par Conversely, to implement an HTML parser, one need only implement those parts of an SGML parser that are needed to parse an instance after parsing the HTML DTD.\par \section{Structured Text}An HTML instance is like a text file, except that some of the characters are interpreted as markup. The markup gives structure to the document.\par The instance represents a hierarchy of elements. Each element has a name , some attributes , and some content. Most elements are represented in the document as a start tag, which gives the name and attributes, followed by the content, followed by the end tag. For example: \begin{verbatim} A sample HTML instance

An Example of Structure

Here's a typical paragraph.

\end{verbatim} Some elements (e.g. P, LI) are empty. They have no content. They show up as just a start tag. \par For the rest of the elements, the content is a sequence of data characters and nested elements. Note that the HTML DTD in fact severely limits the amount of nesting which is allowed: most things cannot be nested, in fact. No elements may be recursively nested. Anchors and character highlighting may be put inside other constructs. \subsection{Tags}Every element starts with a tag, and every non-empty element ends with a tag. Start tags are delimited by $<$ and $>$, and end tags are delimited by $<$/ and $>$. \subsubsection{Names}The element name immediately follows the tag open delimiter. Names consist of a letter followed by up to 33 letters, digits, periods, or hyphens. Names are not case sensitive. \subsubsection{Attributes}In a start tag, whitespace and attributes are allowed between the element name and the closing delimiter. An attribute consists of a name, an equal sign, and a value. Whitespace is allowed around the equal sign.\par The value is specified in a string surrounded by single quotes or a string surrounded by double quotes. (See: other tolerated forms @@)\par The string is parsed like RCDATA (see below ) to determine the attribute value. This allows, for example, quote characters in attribute values to be represented by character references.\par The length of an attribute value (after parsing) is limited to 1024 characters. \subsection{Element Types}The name of a tag refers to an element type declaration in the HTML DTD. An element type declaration associates an element name with \begin{itemize} \item A list of attributes and their types and statuses \item A content type (one of EMPTY, CDATA, RCDATA, ELEMENT, or MIXED) which determines the syntax of the element's content \item A content model, which specifies the pattern of nested elements and data \end{itemize} \subsubsection{Empty Elements}Empty elements have the keyword EMPTY in their declaration. For example: \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} This means that the follwing: \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} is legal, but these others are not: \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{Character Data}The keyword CDATA indicates that the content of an element is character data. Character data is all the text up to the next end tag open delimter-in-context. For example: \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} specifies that the following text is a legal XMP element: \begin{verbatim} Here's an example. It looks like it has <tags> and <!--comments--> in it, but it does not. Even this </ is data. \end{verbatim} The string $<$/ is only recognized as the opening delimiter of an end tag when it is ``in context,'' that is, when it is followed by a letter. However, as soon as the end tag open delimiter is recognized, it terminates the CDATA content. The following is an error: \begin{verbatim} There is no way to represent </end> tags in CDATA \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{Replaceable Character Data}Elements with RCDATA content behave much like thos with CDATA, except for character references and entity references. Elements declared like: \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} can have any sequence of characters in their content. \paragraph{Character References}To represent a character that would otherwise be recognized as markup, use a character referece. The string \&\# signals a character reference when it is followed by a letter or a digit. The delimiter is followed by the decimal character number and a semicolon. For example: \begin{verbatim}You can even represent </end> tags in RCDATA \end{verbatim} \paragraph{Entity References}The HTML DTD declares entities for the less than, greater than, and ampersand characters and each of the ISO Latin 1 characters so that you can reference them by name rather than by number.\par The string \& signals an entity reference when it is followed by a letter or a digit. The delimiter is followed by the entity name and a semicolon. For example: \begin{verbatim}Kurt Gödel was a famous logician and mathemetician. \end{verbatim} \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[Note: ] To be sure that a string of characters has no markup, HTML writers should represent all occurences of $<$, $>$, and \& by character or entity references. \end{DL} \subsubsection{Element Content}Some elements have, in stead of a keyword that states the type of content, a content model, which tells what patterns of data and nested elements are allowed. If the content model of an element does not include the symbol \#PCDATA , the content is element content. \par Whitespace in element content is considered markup and ignored. Any characters that are not markup, that is, data characters, are illegal.\par For example: \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} declares an element that may be used as follows: \begin{verbatim} Head Example \end{verbatim} But the following are illegal: \begin{verbatim} no data allowed! Two isindex tags \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{Mixed Content}If the content model includes the symbol \#PCDATA, the content of the element is parsed as mixed content. For example: \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} This says that the PRE element contains one or more A, B, I, U, or P elements or data characters. Here's an example of a PRE element: \begin{verbatim}
NAME
    cat -- concatenatefiles
EXAMPLE
    cat 
\end{verbatim}
The content of the above PRE element
is:
\begin{itemize}
\item A B element
\item The string ``   cat $--$ concatenate''
\item An A element
\item The string ``\char'134 n''
\item Another B element
\item The string ``\char'134 n   cat $<$xyz''
\end{itemize}
\subsection{Comments and Other Markup}To include comments in an HTML document
that will be ignored by the parser,
surround them with $<$!$--$ and $--$$>$.
After the comment delimiter, all
text up to the next occurence of
$--$ is ignored. Hence comments cannot
be nested. Whitespace is allowed
between the closing $--$ and $>$. (But
not between the opening $<$! and $--$.)\par 
For example:
\begin{verbatim}
HTML Guide: Recommended Usage


 
\end{verbatim}
There are a few other SGML markup
constructs that are deprecated or
illegal.
\begin{DL}{allow this much space}
\item[Delimiter
] Signals...
\item[$<$?
] Processing instruction. Terminated
by $>$. 
\item[$<$!\lbrack 
] Marked section. Marked sections
are deprecated. See the SGML standard
for complete information.
\item[$<$!
] Markup declaration. HTML defines
no short reference maps, so these
are errors. Terminated by $>$.
\end{DL}

\subsection{Line Breaks}A line break character is considered
markup (and ignored) if it is the
first or last piece of content in
an element. This allows you to write
either
\begin{verbatim}
some example text
\end{verbatim} or \begin{verbatim}
some example text
\end{verbatim} and these will be processed identically.\par Also, a line that's not empty but contains no content will be ignored altogether. For example, the element \begin{verbatim}

first line
 
third line
fourth line
\end{verbatim} contains only the strings \begin{verbatim} first line third line fourth line. \end{verbatim} \subsection{Summary of Markup Signals}The following delimiters may signal markup, depending on context. \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[Delimiter ] Signals \item[$<$!$--$ ] Comment \item[\&\# ] Character reference \item[\& ] Entity reference \item[$<$/ ] End tag \item[$<$! ] Markup declaration \item[\rbrack \rbrack $>$ ] Marked section close (an error) \item[$<$ ] Start tag \end{DL} \chapter{HTML Elements}This is a list of elements used in the HTML language. Documents should (but need not absolutely) contain an initial HEAD element followed by a BODY element. \par Old style documents may contain a just the contents of the normal HEAD and BODY elements, in any order. This is deprecated but must be supported by parsers.\par See also: Status of elements \section{Properties of the whole document}Properties of the whole document are defined by the following elements. They should appear within the HEAD element. Their order is not significant. \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[TITLE ] The title of the document \item[ISINDEX ] Sent by a server in a searchable document \item[NEXTID ] A parameter used by editors to generate unique identifiers \item[LINK ] Relationship between this document and another. See also the Anchor element , Relationships . A document may have many LINK elements. \item[BASE ] A record of the URL of the document when saved \end{DL} \section{Text formatting}These are elements which occur within the BODY element of a document. Their order is the logical order in which the elements should be rendered on the output device. \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[Headings ] Several levels of heading are supported. \item[Anchors ] Sections of text which form the beginning and/or end of hypertext links are called "anchors" and defined by the A tag. \item[Paragraph marks ] The P element marks the break between two paragraphs. \item[Address style ] An ADDRESS element is displayed in a particular style. \item[Blockquote style ] A block of text quoted from another source. \item[Lists ] Bulleted lists, glossaries, etc. \item[Preformatted text ] Sections in fixed-width font for preformatted text. \item[Character highlighting ] Formatting elements which do not cause paragraph breaks. \end{DL} \section{Graphics} \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[IMG ] The IMG tag allows inline graphics. \end{DL} \section{Obsolete elements}The other elements are obsolete but should be recognised by parsers for back-compatibility. \section{HEAD}The HEAD element contains all information about the document in general. It does not contain any text which is part of the document: this is in the BODY. Within the head element, only certain elements are allowed. \section{BODY}The BODY element contains all the information which is part of the document, as opposed information about the document which is in the HEAD .\par The elements within the BODY element are in the order in which they should be presented to the reader.\par See the list of things which are allowed within a BODY element . \section{Anchors}An anchor is a piece of text which marks the beginning and/or the end of a hypertext link. \par The text between the opening tag and the closing tag is either the start or destination (or both) of a link. Attributes of the anchor tag are as follows. \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[HREF ] OPTIONAL. If the HREF attribute is present, the anchor is sensitive text: the start of a link. If the reader selects this text, (s)he should be presented with another document whose network address is defined by the value of the HREF attribute . The format of the network address is specified elsewhere . This allows for the form HREF="\#identifier" to refer to another anchor in the same document. If the anchor is in another document, the attribute is a relative name , relative to the documents address (or specified base address if any). \item[NAME ] OPTIONAL. If present, the attribute NAME allows the anchor to be the destination of a link. The value of the attribute is an identifier for the anchor. Identifiers are arbitrary strings but must be unique within the HTML document. Another document can then make a reference explicitly to this anchor by putting the identifier after the address, separated by a hash sign . \item[REL ] OPTIONAL. An attribute REL may give the relationship (s) described by the hypertext link. The value is a comma-separated list of relationship values. Values and their semantics will be registered by the HTML registration authority. The default relationship if none other is given is void. REL should not be present unless HREF is present. See Relationship values , REV . \item[REV ] OPTIONAL. The same as REL , but the semantics of the link type are in the reverse direction. A link from A to B with REL="X" expresses the same relationship as a link from B to A with REV="X". An anchor may have both REL and REV attributes. \item[URN ] OPTIONAL. If present, this specifies a uniform resource number for the document. See note . \item[TITLE ] OPTIONAL. This is informational only. If present the value of this field should equal the value of the TITLE of the document whose address is given by the HREF attribute. See note . \item[METHODS ] OPTIONAL. The value of this field is a string which if present must be a comma separated list of HTTP METHODS supported by the object for public use. See note . \end{DL} All attributes are optional, although one of NAME and HREF is necessary for the anchor to be useful. See also: LINK . \subsection{Example of use:} \begin{verbatim} See CERN's information for more details. A serious crime is one which is associated with imprisonment. ... The Organisation may refuse employment to anyone convicted of a serious crime. \end{verbatim} \subsection{Note: Universal Resource Numbers}URNs are provided to allow a document to be recognised if duplicate copies are found. This should save a client implementation from picking up a copy of something it already has.\par The format of URNs is under discussion (1993) by various working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force. \subsection{Note: TITLE attribute of links}The link may carry a TITLE attribute which should if present give the title of the document whose address is given by the HREF attribute.\par This is useful for at least two reasons \begin{itemize} \item The browser software may chose to display the title of the document as a preliminary to retrieving it, for example as a margin note or on a small box while the mouse is over the anchor, or during document fetch. \item Some documents $--$ mainly those which are not marked up text, such as graphics, plain text and also Gopher menus, do not come with a title themselves, and so putting a title in the link is the only way to give them a title. This is how Gopher works. Obviously it leads to duplication of data, and so it is dangerous to assume that the title attribute of the link is a valid and unique title for the destination document. \end{itemize} \subsection{Note: METHODS attribute of Links}The METHODS attributes of anchors and links are used to provide information about the functions which the user may perform on an object. These are more accurately given by the HTTP protocol when it is used, but it may, for similar reasons as for the TITLE attribute, be useful to include the information in advance in the link.\par For example, The browser may chose a different rendering as a function of the methods allowed (for example something which is searchable may get a different icon) \section{Address}This element is for address information, signatures, authorship, etc, often at the top or bottom of a document. \subsection{Typical rendering}Typically, an address element is italic and/or right justified or indented. The address element implies a paragraph break. Paragraph marks within the address element do not cause extra white space to be inserted. \subsection{Examples of use:} \begin{verbatim}
A.N.Other
Newsletter editor

J.R. Brown

JimquickPost News, Jumquick, CT 01234

Tel (123) 456 7890

\end{verbatim} \section{BASE}This element allows the URL of the document itself to be recorded in situations in which the document may be read out of context. URLs within the document may be in a "partial" form relative to this base address.\par Where the base address is not specified, the reader will use the URL it used to access the document to resolve any relative URLs.\par The one attribute is: \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[HREF ] the URL \end{DL} \section{BlockQuote}The BLOCKQUOTE element allows text quoted from another source to be rendered specially. \subsection{Typical rendering}A typical rendering might be a slight extra left and right indent, and/or italic font. BLOCKQUOTE causes a paragraph break, and typically a line or so of white space will be allowed between it and any text before or after it.\par Single-font rendition may for example put a vertical line of "$>$" characters down the left margin to indicate quotation in the Internet mail style. \subsection{Example} \begin{verbatim}I think it ends
Soft you now, the fair Ophelia. Nymph, in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered.
but I am not sure. \end{verbatim} \par \section{Headings}Six levels of heading are supported. (Note that a hypertext node within a hypertext work tends to need less levels of heading than a work whose only structure is given by the nesting of headings.)\par A heading element implies all the font changes, paragraph breaks before and after, and white space (for example) necessary to render the heading. Futher character emphasis or paragraph marks are not required in HTML.\par H1 is the highest level of heading, and is recommened for the start of a hypertext node. It is suggested that the the text of the first heading be suitable for a reader who is already browsing in related information, in contrast to the title tag which should identify the node in a wider context.\par The heading elements are \begin{verbatim}

,

,

,

,

,
\end{verbatim} It is not normal practice to jump from one header to a header level more than one below, for example for follow an H1 with an H3. Although this is legal, it is discouraged, as it may prodcue strange results for example when generating other representations from the HTML. \subsection{Example:} \begin{verbatim}

This is a heading

Here is some text

Second level heading

Here is some more text. \end{verbatim} \subsection{Parser Note:}Parsers should not require any specific order to heading elements, even if the heading level increases by more than one between successive headings. \subsection{Typical Rendering} \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[H1 ] Bold very large font, centered. One or two lines clear space between this and anything following. If printed on paper, start new page. \item[H2 ] Bold, large font,, flush left against left margin, no indent. One or two clear lines above and below. \item[H3 ] Italic, large font, slightly indented from the left margin. One or two clear lines above and below. \item[H4 ] Bold, normal font, indented more than H3. One clear line above and below. \item[H5 ] Italic, normal font, indented as H4. One clear line above. \item[H6 ] Bold, indented same as normal text, more than H5. One clear line above. \end{DL} These typical values are just an indication, and it is up to the designer of the presentation software to define the styles. The reader may have options to customise these. When writing documents, you should assume that whatever is done it is designed to have the same sort of effect as the styles above.\par The rendering software is responsible for generating suitable vertical white space between elements, so it is NOT normal or required to follow a heading element with a paragraph mark.\par \section{IMG: Embedded Images}Status: Extra\par The IMG element allows another document to be inserted inline. The document is normally an icon or small graphic, etc. This element is NOT intended for embedding other HTML text.\par Browsers which are not able to display inline images ignore IMG elements. Authors should note that some browsers will be able to display (or print) linked graphics but not inline graphics. If the graphic is essential, it may be wiser to make a link to it rather than to put it inline. If the graphic is essentially decorative, then IMG is appropriate.\par The IMG element is empty: it has no closing tag. It has two attributes: \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[SRC ] The value of this attribute is the URL of the document to be embedded. Its syntax is the same as that of the HREF attribute of the A tag. SRC is mandatory. \item[ALIGN ] Take values TOP or MIDDLE or BOTTOM, defining whether the tops or middles of bottoms of the graphics and text should be aligned vertically. \end{DL} Note that IMG elements are allowed within anchors. \subsection{Example} \begin{verbatim} Warning: < IMG SRC ="triangle.gif"> This must be done by a qualified technician. < A HREF="Go">< IMG SRC ="Button"> Press to start \end{verbatim} \section{IsIndex}This element informs the reader that the document is an index document. As well as reading it, the reader may use a keyword search.\par The node may be queried with a keyword search by suffixing the node address with a question mark, followed by a list of keywords separated by plus signs. See the network address format .\par Note that this tag is normally generated automatically by a server. If it is added by hand to an HTML document, then the client will assume that the server can handle a search on the document. Obviously the server must have this capability for it to work: simply adding $<$ISINDEX$>$ in the document is not enough to make searches happen if the server does not have a search engine!\par Status: standard. \subsection{Example of use:} \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} \section{Forms of list in HTML} \subsection{Glossaries}A glossary (or definition list) is a list of paragraphs each of which has a short title alongside it. Apart from glossaries, this element is useful for presenting a set of named elements to the reader. The elements within a glossary follow are \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[DT ] The "term", typically placed in a wide left indent \item[DD ] The "definition", which may wrap onto many lines \end{DL} These elements must appear in pairs. Single occurences of DT without a following DD are illegal. The one attribute which DL can take is \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[COMPACT ] suggests that a compact rendering be used, because the enclosed elements are individually small, or the whole glossary is rather large, or both. \end{DL} \subsubsection{Typical rendering}The definition list DT, DD pairs are arranged vertically. For each pair, the DT element is on the left, in a column of about a third of the display area, and the DD element is in the right hand two thirds of the display area. The DT term is normally small enough to fit on one line within the left-hand column. If it is longer, it will either extend acrosss the page, in which case the DD section is moved down to separate them, or it is wrapped onto successive lines of the left hand column.\par White space is typically left between successive DT,DD pairs unless the COMPACT attribute is given. The COMPACT attribute is appropriate for lists which are long and/or have DT,DD pairs which each take only a line or two. It is of course possible for the rendering software to discover these cases itself and make its own decisions, and this is to be encouraged.\par The COMPACT attribute may also reduce the width of the left-hand (DT) column. \subsubsection{Examples of use} \begin{verbatim}
Term the first
definition paragraph is reasonably long but is still diplayed clearly
Term2 follows
Definition of term2
Term
definition pagagraph
Term2
Definition of term2
\end{verbatim} \subsection{Lists}A list is a sequence of paragraphs, each of which may be preceded by a special mark or sequence number. The syntax is: \begin{verbatim}
  • list element
  • another list element ...
\end{verbatim} The opening list tag may be any of UL, OL, MENU or DIR. It must be immediately followed by the first list element. \subsubsection{Typical rendering}The representation of the list is not defined here, but a bulleted list for unordered lists, and a sequence of numbered paragraphs for an ordered list would be quite appropriate. Other possibilities for interactive display include embedded scrollable browse panels.\par List elements with typical rendering are: \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[UL ] A list of multi-line paragraphs, typically separated by some white space and/or marked by bullets, etc. \item[OL ] As UL, but the paragraphs are typically numbered in some way to indicate the order as significant. \item[MENU ] A list of smaller paragraphs. Typically one line per item, with a style more compact than UL. \item[DIR ] A list of short elements, typically less than 20 characters. These may be arranged in columns across the page, typically 24 character in width. If the rendering software is able to optimise the column width as function of the widths of individual elements, so much the better. \end{DL} \subsubsection{Example of use} \begin{verbatim}
  1. When you get to the station, leave by the southern exit, on platform one.
  2. Turn left to face toward the mountain
  3. Walk for a mile or so until you reach the "Asquith Arms" then
  4. Wait and see...
< MENU >
  • The oranges should be pressed fresh
  • The nuts may come from a packet
  • The gin must be good quality < DIR >
  • A-H
  • I-M
  • M-R
  • S-Z \end{verbatim} \section{Next ID}This tag takes a single attribute which is the number of the next document-wide numeric identifier to be allocated of the form z123. \par When modifying a document, old anchor ids should not be reused, as there may be references stored elsewhere which point to them. This is read and generated by hypertext editors. Human writers of HTML usually use mnemonic alphabetical identifiers. Browser software may ignore this tag. \subsection{Example of use:} \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} \section{P: Paragraph mark}The empty P element indicates a paragraph break. The exact rendering of this (indentation, leading, etc) is not defined here, and may be a function of other tags, style sheets etc.\par $<$P$>$ is used between two pieces of text which otherwise would be flowed together.\par You do NOT need to use $<$P$>$ to put white space around heading, list, address or blockquote elements which imply a paragraph break. It is the responsability of the rendering software to generate that white space. A paragraph mark which is preceded or followed by such elements which imply a paragraph break is has undefined effect and should be avoided. \subsection{Typical rendering}Typically, $<$P$>$ will generate a small vertical space (of a line or half a line) between the paragraphs. This is not the case (typically) within ADDRESS or (ever) within PRE elements. With some implementations, in normal text, $<$P$>$ may generate a small extra left indent on the first line. \subsection{Examples of use} \begin{verbatim}

    What to do

    This is a one paragraph.< p >This is a second. < P > This is a third. \end{verbatim} \subsection{Bad example} \begin{verbatim}

    What not to do

    I found that on my XYZ browser it looked prettier to me if I put some paragraph marks

    • Around lists, and
    • After headings.

    None of the paragraph marks in this example should be there. \end{verbatim} \section{PRE: Preformatted text}Preformatted elements in HTML are displayed with text in a fixed width font, and so are suitable for text which has been formatted for a teletype by some existing formatting system. \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} The optional attribute is: \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[WIDTH ]This attribute gives the maximum number of characters which will occur on a line. It allows the presentation system to select a suitable font and indentation. Where the WIDTH attribute is not recognised, it is recommened that a width of 80 be assumed. Where WIDTH is supported, it is recommeded that at least widths of 40, 80 and 132 characters be presented optimally, with other widths being rounded up. \end{DL} Within a PRE element, \begin{itemize} \item Line boundaries within the text are rendered as a move to the beginning of the next line, except for one immediately following or immediately preceding a tag. \item The $<$p$>$ tag should not be used. If found, it should be rendered as a move to the beginning of the next line. \item Anchor elements and character highlighting elements may be used. \item Elements which define paragraph formatting (Headings, Address, etc) must not be used. \item The ASCII Horizontal Tab (HT) character must be interpreted as the smallest positive nonzero number of spaces which will leave the number of characters so far on the line as a multiple of 8. Its use is not recommended however. \end{itemize} \subsubsection{Example of use} \begin{verbatim}

    			This is an example line
    			
    \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{Note: Highlighting}Within a preformatted element, the constraint that the rendering must be on a fixed horizontal character pitch may limit or prevent the ability of the renderer to render highlighting elements specially. \subsubsection{Note: Margins }The above references to the "beginning of a new line" must not be taken as implying that the renderer is forbidden from using a (constant) left indent for rendering preformatted text. The left indent may of course be constrained by the width required. \section{LINK}The LINK element occurs within the HEAD element of an HTML document. It is used to indicate a relationship between the document and some other object. A document may have any number of LINK elements. \par The LINK element is empty, but takes the same attributes as the anchor element .\par Typical uses are to indicate authorship, related indexes and glossaries, older or more recent versions, etc. Links can indicate a static tree structure in which the document was authored by pointing to a "parent" and "next" and "previous" document, for example.\par Servers may also allow links to be added by those who do not have the right to alter the body of a document. \section{TITLE}The title of a document is specified by the TITLE element. The TITLE element should occur in the HEAD of the document.\par There may only be one title in any document. It should identify the content of the document in a fairly wide context.\par The title is not part of the text of the document, but is a property of the whole document. It may not contain anchors, paragraph marks, or highlighting. The title may be used to identify the node in a history list, to label the window displaying the node, etc. It is not normally displayed in the text of a document itself. Contrast titles with headings . The title should ideally be less than 64 characters in length. That is, many applications will display document titles in window titles, menus, etc where there is only limited room. Whilst there is no limit on the length of a title (as it may be automatically generated from other data), information providers are warned that it may be truncated if long. \subsubsection{Examples of use}Appropriate titles might be \begin{verbatim} Rivest and Neuman. 1989(b) \end{verbatim} or \begin{verbatim} A Recipe for Maple Syrup Flap-Jack \end{verbatim} or \begin{verbatim} Introduction -- AFS user's Guide \end{verbatim} Examples of inappropriate titles are those which are only meaningful within context, \begin{verbatim} Introduction \end{verbatim} or too long, \begin{verbatim} Remarks on the Quantum-Gravity effects of "Bean Pole" diversification in Mononucleosis patients in Developing Countries under Economic Conditions Prevalent during the Second half of the Twentieth Century, and Related Papers: a Summary \end{verbatim} \section{Character highlighting}Status: Extra\par These elements allow sections of text to be formatted in a particular way, to provide emphasis, etc. The tags do NOT cause a paragraph break, and may be used on sections of text within paragraphs.\par Where not supported by implementations, like all tags, these tags should be ignored but the content rendered.\par All these tags have related closing tags, as in \begin{verbatim} This is emphasised text. \end{verbatim} Some of these styles are more explicit than others about how they should be physically represented. The logical styles should be used wherever possible, unless for example it is necessary to refer to the formatting in the text. (Eg, "The italic parts are mandatory".) \subsubsection{Note:}Browsers unable to display a specified style may render it in some alternative, or the default, style, with some loss of qualtity for the reader. Some implementations may ignore these tags altogether, so information providers should attempt not to rely on them as essential to the information content.\par These element names are derived from TeXInfo macro names. \subsection{Physical styles} \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[TT ] Fixed-width typewriter font. \item[B ] Boldface, where available, otherwise alternative mapping allowed. \item[I ] Italic font (or slanted if italic unavailable). \item[U ] Underline. \end{DL} \subsection{Logical styles} \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[EM ] Emphasis, typically italic. \item[STRONG ] Stronger emphasis, typically bold. \item[CODE ] Example of code. typically monospaced font. (Donot confuse with PRE) \item[SAMP ] A sequence of litteral characters. \item[KBD ] in an instruction manual, Text typed by a user. \item[VAR ] A variable name. \item[DFN ] The defining instance of a term. Typically bold or bold italic. \item[CITE ] A citation. Typically italic. \end{DL} \subsection{Examples of use} \begin{verbatim} This text contains an emphasised word. Don't assume that it will be italic! It was made using the EM element. A citation is typically italic and has no formal necessary structure: Moby Dick is a book title. \end{verbatim} \section{Obsolete elements}The following elements of HTML are obsolete. It is recommended that client implementors implement the obsolete forms for compatibility with old servers. \subsubsection{Plaintext}Status: Obsolete . \par The empty PLAINTEXT tag terminates the HTML entity. What follows is not SGML. In stead, there's an old HTTP convention that what follows is an ASCII (MIME "text/plain") body.\par An example if its use is: \begin{verbatim} 0001 This is line one of a ling listing 0002 file from <any@host.inc.com> which is sent \end{verbatim} This tag allows the rest of a file to be read efficiently without parsing. Its presence is an optimisation. There is no closing tag. The rest of the data is not in SGML. \subsubsection{XMP and LISTING: Example sections}Status: Obsolete . This are in use and should be recognised by browers. New servers should use $<$PRE$>$ instead.\par These styles allow text of fixed-width characters to be embedded absolutely as is into the document. The syntax is: \begin{verbatim} <LISTING> ... </LISTING> \end{verbatim} or \begin{verbatim} <XMP> ... </XMP> \end{verbatim} The text between these tags is to be portrayed in a fixed width font, so that any formatting done by character spacing on successive lines will be maintained. Between the opening and closing tags: \begin{itemize} \item The text may contain any ISO Latin printable characters, but not the end tag opener. (See Historical note ) \item Line boundaries are significant, except any occuring immediately after the opening tag or before the closing tag. and are to be rendered as a move to the start of a new line. \item The ASCII Horizontal Tab (HT) character must be interpreted as the smallest positive nonzero number of spaces which will leave the number of characters so far on the line as a multiple of 8. Its use is not recommended however. \end{itemize}The LISTING element is portrayed so that at least 132 characters will fit on a line. The XMP elemnt is portrayed in a font so that at least 80 characters will fit on a line but is otherwise identical to LISTING. \subsubsection{Highlighted Phrase HP1 etc}Status: Obsolete . These tags like all others should be ignored if not implemented. Replaced will more meaningful elements $--$ see character highlighting . \paragraph{Examples of use:} \begin{verbatim} <HP1>...</HP1> <HP2>... </HP2> etc. \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{Comment element}Status: Obsolete\par A comment element used for bracketing off unneed text and comment has been intriduced in some browsers but will be replaced by the SGML command feature in new implementations. \subsection{Historical Note: XMP and LISTING}The XMP and LISTING elements used historically to have non SGML conforming specifications, in that the text could contain any ISO Latin printable characters, including the tag opener, so long as it does not contain the closing tag in full.\par This form is not supported by SGML and so is not the specified HTML interpretation. Providers should be warned that implemntations may vary on how they interpret end tags apparently within these elements \chapter{Entities}The following entity names are used in HTML , always prefixed by ampersand (\&) and followed by a semicolon as shown. They represent particular graphic characters which have special meanings in places in the markup, or may not be part of the character set available to the writer. \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[$<$ ] The less than sign $<$ \item[$>$ ] The "greater than" sign $>$ \item[\&amp; ] The ampersand sign \& itself. \item[\&quot; ] The double quote sign " \end{DL} Also allowed are references to any of the ISO Latin-1 alphabet, using the entity names in the following table. \section{ISO Latin 1 character entities}This list is derived from "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN". \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[\&AElig; ]capital AE diphthong (ligature) \item[\&Aacute; ]capital A, acute accent \item[\&Acirc; ]capital A, circumflex accent \item[\&Agrave; ]capital A, grave accent \item[\&Aring; ]capital A, ring \item[\&Atilde; ]capital A, tilde \item[\&Auml; ]capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&Ccedil; ]capital C, cedilla \item[\&ETH; ]capital Eth, Icelandic \item[\&Eacute; ]capital E, acute accent \item[\&Ecirc; ]capital E, circumflex accent \item[\&Egrave; ]capital E, grave accent \item[\&Euml; ]capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&Iacute; ]capital I, acute accent \item[\&Icirc; ]capital I, circumflex accent \item[\&Igrave; ]capital I, grave accent \item[\&Iuml; ]capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&Ntilde; ]capital N, tilde \item[\&Oacute; ]capital O, acute accent \item[\&Ocirc; ]capital O, circumflex accent \item[\&Ograve; ]capital O, grave accent \item[\&Oslash; ]capital O, slash \item[\&Otilde; ]capital O, tilde \item[\&Ouml; ]capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&THORN; ]capital THORN, Icelandic \item[\&Uacute; ]capital U, acute accent \item[\&Ucirc; ]capital U, circumflex accent \item[\&Ugrave; ]capital U, grave accent \item[\&Uuml; ]capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&Yacute; ]capital Y, acute accent \item[\&aacute; ]small a, acute accent \item[\&acirc; ]small a, circumflex accent \item[\&aelig; ]small ae diphthong (ligature) \item[\&agrave; ]small a, grave accent \item[\&aring; ]small a, ring \item[\&atilde; ]small a, tilde \item[\&auml; ]small a, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&ccedil; ]small c, cedilla \item[\&eacute; ]small e, acute accent \item[\&ecirc; ]small e, circumflex accent \item[\&egrave; ]small e, grave accent \item[\&eth; ]small eth, Icelandic \item[\&euml; ]small e, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&iacute; ]small i, acute accent \item[\&icirc; ]small i, circumflex accent \item[\&igrave; ]small i, grave accent \item[\&iuml; ]small i, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&ntilde; ]small n, tilde \item[\&oacute; ]small o, acute accent \item[\&ocirc; ]small o, circumflex accent \item[\&ograve; ]small o, grave accent \item[\&oslash; ]small o, slash \item[\&otilde; ]small o, tilde \item[\&ouml; ]small o, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&szlig; ]small sharp s, German (sz ligature) \item[\&thorn; ]small thorn, Icelandic \item[\&uacute; ]small u, acute accent \item[\&ucirc; ]small u, circumflex accent \item[\&ugrave; ]small u, grave accent \item[\&uuml; ]small u, dieresis or umlaut mark \item[\&yacute; ]small y, acute accent \item[\&yuml; ]small y, dieresis or umlaut mark \end{DL} \chapter{The HTML DTD}The HTML DTD follows . Its relationship to the content of an SGML document is explained in the section "HTML and SGML" . \begin{verbatim} <!SGML "ISO 8879:1986" -- Document Type Definition for the HyperText Markup Language as used by the World Wide Web application (HTML DTD). NOTE: This is a definition of HTML with respect to SGML, and assumes an understaning of SGML terms. -- CHARSET BASESET "ISO 646:1983//CHARSET International Reference Version (IRV)//ESC 2/5 4/0" DESCSET 0 9 UNUSED 9 2 9 11 2 UNUSED 13 1 13 14 18 UNUSED 32 95 32 127 1 UNUSED CAPACITY SGMLREF TOTALCAP 150000 GRPCAP 150000 SCOPE DOCUMENT SYNTAX SHUNCHAR CONTROLS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 127 255 BASESET "ISO 646:1983//CHARSET International Reference Version (IRV)//ESC 2/5 4/0" DESCSET 0 128 0 FUNCTION RE 13 RS 10 SPACE 32 TAB SEPCHAR 9 NAMING LCNMSTRT "" UCNMSTRT "" LCNMCHAR ".-" UCNMCHAR ".-" NAMECASE GENERAL YES ENTITY NO DELIM GENERAL SGMLREF SHORTREF SGMLREF NAMES SGMLREF QUANTITY SGMLREF NAMELEN 34 TAGLVL 100 LITLEN 1024 GRPGTCNT 150 GRPCNT 64 FEATURES MINIMIZE DATATAG NO OMITTAG NO RANK NO SHORTTAG NO LINK SIMPLE NO IMPLICIT NO EXPLICIT NO OTHER CONCUR NO SUBDOC NO FORMAL YES APPINFO NONE > <!DOCTYPE HTML [ <!-- $Id: html.dtd,v 1.3 93/01/06 18:38:10 connolly Exp $ --> <!-- Regarding clause 6.1, SGML Document: [1] SGML document = SGML document entity, (SGML subdocument entity | SGML text entity | non-SGML data entity)* The role of SGML document entity is filled by this DTD, followed by the conventional HTML data stream. --> <!-- DTD definitions --> <!ENTITY % heading "H1|H2|H3|H4|H5|H6" > <!ENTITY % list " UL | OL | DIR | <A NAME=z29 HREF="Lists.html#z36">MENU "> <!ENTITY % literal " XMP | LISTING "> <!ENTITY % headelement " TITLE | NEXTID | ISINDEX" > <!ENTITY % bodyelement "P | A | %heading | %list | DL | HEADERS | ADDRESS | PRE | BLOCKQUOTE | %literal"> <!ENTITY % oldstyle "%headelement | %bodyelement | #PCDATA"> <!-- Characters from various Latin alphabets. --> <!ENTITY % ISOlat1 PUBLIC "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN"> %ISOlat1; <!-- Document Element --> <!ELEMENT HTML 0 0 ( HEAD | BODY | %oldstyle )*> <!ELEMENT HEAD - - ( TITLE ? & ISINDEX ? & NEXTID ? & LINK * & BASE ? )> <!ELEMENT TITLE - - RCDATA -- The TITLE element is not considered part of the flow of text. It should be displayed, for example as the page header or window title. --> <!ELEMENT ISINDEX - 0 EMPTY -- WWW clients should offer the option to perform a search on documents containing ISINDEX. --> <!ELEMENT NEXTID - 0 EMPTY> <!ATTLIST NEXTID N NAME #REQUIRED -- The number should be a name suitable for use for the ID of a new element. When used, the value has its numeric part incremented. EG Z67 becomes Z68 --> <!ELEMENT LINK - 0 EMPTY> <!ATTLIST LINK NAME NMTOKEN #IMPLIED HREF %URL; #IMPLIED REL CDATA #IMPLIED -- type of relashionship REV CDATA #IMPLIED -- type of relashionship to referent data: PARENT CHILD, SIBLING, NEXT, TOP, DEFINITION, UPDATE, ORIGINAL etc. -- URN CDATA #IMPLIED -- universal resource number -- TITLE CDATA #IMPLIED -- advisory only -- METHODS NAMES #IMPLIED -- supported public methods of the object: TEXTSEARCH, GET, HEAD, ... -- > <!ELEMENT BASE - 0 EMPTY> -- Reference context for URLS -- <!ATTLIST BASE HREF %URL; #IMPLIED > <!ENTITY % inline "EM | TT | STRONG | B | I | U | CODE | SAMP | KBD | KEY | VAR | DFN | CITE " > <!ELEMENT (%inline;) - - (#PCDATA)> <!ENTITY % text "#PCDATA | IMG | %inline;"> <!ELEMENT BODY - - (%bodyelement|%text;)*> <!ENTITY % URL "CDATA" -- The term URL means a CDATA attribute whose value is a Uniform Resource Locator, as defined. (A URN may also be usable here when defined.) --> <!ELEMENT A - - (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST A NAME NMTOKEN #IMPLIED HREF %URL ; #IMPLIED REL CDATA #IMPLIED REV CDATA #IMPLIED -- type of relashionship: PARENT CHILD, SIBLING, NEXT, TOP, DEFINITION, UPDATE, ORIGINAL etc.-- URN CDATA #IMPLIED -- uniform resource number -- TITLE CDATA #IMPLIED -- advisory only -- METHODS NAMES #IMPLIED -- supportedpublic methods of the object: TEXTSEARCH, GET, HEAD, ... -- > <!ELEMENT IMG - 0 EMPTY -- Embedded image --> <!ATTLIST IMG SRC %URL ; #IMPLIED -- URL of document to embed -- > <!ENTITY % htext "A | %text"> <!ELEMENT P - 0 EMPTY -- separates paragraphs --> <!ELEMENT ( %heading ) - - (%text;|A)+> <!ELEMENT HEADERS - - (DT | #PCDATA | DD | A)+> <!ELEMENT DL - - (DT | DD | P | %htext;)*> <!-- Content should match ((DT,(%htext;)+)+,(DD,(%htext;)+)) But mixed content is messy. --> <!ELEMENT DT - 0 EMPTY> <!ELEMENT DD - 0 EMPTY> <!ELEMENT (%list) - - (%htext;|LI|P)+> <!-- Content should match ((LI,(%htext;)+)+) But mixed content is messy. --> <!ATTLIST (%list) COMPACT NAME #IMPLIED -- COMPACT, etc.-- > <!ELEMENT LI - 0 EMPTY> <!ELEMENT BLOCKQUOTE - - (%htext;|P)+ -- for quoting some other source --> <!ATTLIST BLOCKQUOTE > <!ELEMENT ADDRESS - - (%htext;|P)+> <!ELEMENT PRE - - (%htext|P)+> <!ATTLIST PRE WIDTH NUMBER #implied > <!-- deprecated elements --> <!ELEMENT (%literal) - - RCDATA> <!ELEMENT PLAINTEXT - 0 EMPTY> <!-- Local Variables: --> <!-- mode: sgml --> <!-- compile-command: "sgmls -s -p " --> <!-- end: --> ]> \end{verbatim} \chapter{Link Relationship values}Status: This list is not part of the standard. It is intended to illustrate the use of link relationships and to provide a framework for further development.\par Additions to this list will be controlled by the HTML registration authority . Experimental values may be used on the condition that they begin with "X-".\par These values of the REL attribute of hypertext links have a significance defined here, and may be treated in special ways by HTML applications.\par These relationships relate whole documents (objects), rather than particular anchors within them. If the relationship value is used with a link between anchors rather than whole documents, the semantics are considered to apply to the documents.\par In the explanations which follows, A is the source document of the link and B is the destination document specified by the HREF attribute.\par A relationship marked "Acyclic" has the property that no sequence of links with that relationship may be followed from any document back to itself. These types of links may therefore be used to define trees. \section{Relationships between documents}These relationships are between the documents themselves rather than the subjects of the documents. \subsection{UseIndex}B is a related index for a search by a user reading this document who asks for an index search function.\par A document may have any number of index links, causing several indexes top be searched in a client-defined manner.\par B must support SEARCH operations under its access protocol. \subsection{UseGlossary}B is an index which should be used to resolve glossary queries in the document. (Typically, a double-click on a word which is not within an anchor).\par A document may have any number of glossary links. \subsection{Annotation}The information in B is additional to and subsidiary to that in A. \par Annotation is used by one person to write the equivalent of "margin notes" or other criticism on another's document, for example.\par Example: The relationship between a newsgroup and its articles.\par Acyclic. \subsection{Reply}Similar to Annotation, but there is no suggestion that B is subsidiary to A: A and B are on equal footings.\par Example: The relationship between a mail message and its reply, a news article and its reply.\par Acyclic. \subsection{Embed}If this link is followed, the node at the end of it is embedded into the display of the source document.\par Acyclic. \subsection{Precedes}In an ordered structure defined by the author, A precedes B, B is followed by A.\par Acyclic. \par Any document may only have one link of this relationship, and/or one link of the reverse relationship.\par Note: May be used to control navigational aids, generate printed material, etc. In conjunction with "subdocument", may be used to define a tree such as a printed book made of hypertext document. The document can only have one such tree. \subsection{Subdocument}B is a lower part in the author's hierarchy to A. Acyclic. See also Precedes. \subsection{Present}Whenever A is presented, B must also be presented. This implies that whenever A is retrieved, B must also be retrieved. \subsection{Search}When the link is followed, the node B should be searched rather than presented. That is, where the client software allows it, the user should immediately be presented with a search panel and prompted for text. The search is then performed without an intermediate retrieval or presentation of the node B \subsection{Supersedes}B is a previous version of A. \par Acyclic. \subsection{History}B is a list of versions of A\par A link reverse link must exist from B to A and to all other known versions of A. \section{Relationships about subjects of documents}These relationships convey semantics about objects described by documents, rather than the documents themselves. \subsection{Includes}A includes B, B is part of A. For example, a person described by document A is a part of the group described by document B.\par Acyclic. \subsection{Made}Person (etc) described by node A is author of, or is responsible for B\par This information can be used for protection, and informing authors of interest, for sending mail to authors, etc. \subsection{Interested}Person (etc) described by A is interested in node B\par This information can be used for informing readers of changes. \chapter{Registration Authority}The HTTP Registration Authority is responsible for maintaining lists of: \begin{itemize} \item Relationship names for link and anchor elements \end{itemize}It is proposed that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority or their successors take this role.\par Unregistered values may be used for experimental purposes if they are start with "X-". \chapter{References } \begin{DL}{allow this much space} \item[SGML ] ISO 8879:1986, Information ProcessingText and Office SystemsStandard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). \item[sgmls ] an SGML parser by James Clark $<$jjc@jclark.com$>$ derived from the ARCSGML parser materials which were written by Charles F. Goldfarb. The source is available on the ifi.uio.no FTP server in the directory /pub/SGML/SGMLS . \item[WWW ] The World-Wide Web , a global information initiative. For boostrap information, telnet info.cern.ch or find documents by ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc \item[URL ] Universal Resource Locators. RFCxxx. Currently available by anonymous FTP from info.cern.ch in /pub/ietf. \end{DL} \chapter{Author's addresses}This document was prepared with the help and advice of many people across the net. Dan Connolly prepared the DTD and the section on HTML and SGML whilst with Convex Computer Corporation of 3000 Waterview Parkway Richardson, TX 75083. He is now with Atrium Technology Inc., and is not a current editor of the document. \begin{verbatim} Tim Berners-Lee Address CERN 1211 Geneva 23 Switzerland Telephone: +41(22)767 3755 Fax: +41(22)767 7155 email: timbl@info.cern.ch Daniel Connolly Address: Atrium Technologies, Inc. 5000 Plaza on the Lake, Suite 275 Austin, TX 78746 USA email: connolly@atrium.com \end{verbatim} \end{document}