1 Introduction

1.2 WWW documents

WWW documents are written in HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language. HTML describes the hierarchical structure of a document, leaving the presentation of the document to external browsers. Paragraphs may be at different hierarchical levels and may be interpreted differently depending on their environment.

Documents are divided into two elements, marked by the HTML tags of HEAD and BODY. The HEAD contains information about the document itself. The BODY is the text of the document. It is made up of a sequence of HTML constructs, which may be described by the following three cases:

Simple paragraphs containing textual and image data with character highlights, hypertext links, and line breaks.
The basic paragraph, tagged P; all headings, tagged H1, H2,..., H6; and the preformatted environment, tagged PRE.
Environments that contain simple paragraphs.
The ADDRESS and BLOCKQUOTE environments.
Lists made up of list items, divided into two cases:
The ordered and unordered lists, OL and UL. These contain the HTML list item, LI, which may contain simple paragraphs and other lists.
The glossary list, DL. This is made up of pairs of DT (definition term) and DD (definition description). DT may contain everything that the basic paragraph P may contain. DD may contain everything that LI may contain.

It is important to note that HTML does not offer the same page layout capability as FrameMaker. As a result, it is not always possible to reproduce the exact presentation of the original FrameMaker document with HTML.

WebMaker User Guide - 27 SEP 1995

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