... a (large) set of general structural units (paragraph, abstract, example, etc.). (George Dillon, 1999). After the production of text was automated. The term markup was extended to include different types of special "markup codes" inserted into electronic texts to govern formatting, printing, or other processing (Lou Burnard, 1995). The remaining section of this report will highlight different markup languages that exist in the cyberspace. 4. SGML SGML is a Standard Generalized Markup Language defined in ISO Standard 8879:1986. It is the international standard way for creating descriptive markup languages. According to Martin Bryan of The SGML Centre, "SGML takes the concept of descriptive markup beyond the level of other markup languages". This is true to some extent. He goes on to say, "By defining the role of each piece of text in a formal model, users of programs based on the SGML can check that each element of text is used in the correct ...

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