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<H2>About HTML</H2>
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The <B>HyperText Markup Language</B> (HTML) is an SGML application for marking up documents for inclusion in the World Wide Web. HTML allows you to:
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<EM>Publish documents to the Internet in a platform independent format</EM>
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<EM>Create links to related works from your document</EM>
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<EM>Include graphics and multimedia data with your document</EM>
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<EM>Link to non-World Wide Web information resources on the Internet</EM>
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HTML was originally intended to be used for encoding document structures. While there are now many formatting and formatting-like tags, there are also numerous tags that apply to text structures like headings, paragraphs and tables.
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<ADDRESS><A HREF="/jpowell/jpowell.html" TARGET="_top">James Powell</A><BR>
Scholarly Communications, Virginia Tech<BR>
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Last updated: November 5, 1996
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