SGML is an acronym for Standard Generalized Markup Language. This language was developed and organized by the International Organization for Standards in 1986 as a means for organizing and identifying elements of a document that are destined to be...

The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. SGML is a descendant of IBM's Generalized Markup Language (GML), developed in the 1960s by Charles Goldfarb, Edward Mosher and...

The proliferation of computers and the seemingly overwhelming volume of information being produced by them have given rise to a new language for information encoding: the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). This language goes far beyond the American Standard Code for Information Interchange...

One of the inventors of the SGML describes its origins and development from the late 1960s to the 1980s. Generalized markup had its roots at IBM and resulted from efforts to solve the data representation problem. It was developed not as an alternative but...