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| | Overview of Standard Generalized Markup Language |
 | | While Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is both standard (ISO 8879) and generalized, it does not provide an off the shelf markup language that one can simply take home and apply to a letter, a novel, an article, a software manual, or a catalog record. |
 | | While procedural markup specifies a particular procedure to be applied to a document component, descriptive markup indicates what the component is. Examples are chapter, chapter title, section, paragraph, author, publisher, and cataloging_in_publication data. |
 | | There are different kinds and ways that one might use referential markup, but I would like to focus on the kind of referential markup that enables something about which most of you have heard, and perhaps with which many of you have some experience, namely, hypertext and hypermedia. |
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