Moving Beyond HTML

Hypertext Needs a Sounder Foundation

Building on HTML The enormous number of developers using HTML has familiarized a large audience with the use of markup technology. < and > are familiar to Web developers, as are the concepts of elements, attributes, and nesting.
Moving Beyond Documents HTML was designed for use with a particular document format, and has significant limitations even for documents. Data applications that need to reference information using hypertext have been forced into this usually inappropriate document format.
Customizable yet Standardized XML promises open markup vocabularies that use generic syntax and processing, making it possible to move beyond HTML yet still have generic hypertext processing.