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<h3><a name="syntax">2. HTML Syntax</a></h3>

Web pages are written in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).  HTML has three
special characters:
<tt>&lt;</tt>, <tt>&amp;</tt>, <tt>&gt;</tt>.
An HTML command is enclosed in <tt>&lt;...&gt;</tt>, for example 
<tt>&lt;p&gt;</tt>, which is a paragraph separator, or <tt>&lt;b&gt;</tt>
("begin bold") and <tt>&lt;/b&gt;</tt> ("end bold").  So the following
HTML text:

<p>
<blockquote>
<pre>
This sentence contains &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt; text.
</pre>
</blockquo