dardization">ISO</abbr> 8879, and is widely regarded as the
standard publishing language of the World Wide Web.</p>

<p>SGML is a language for describing markup languages,
particularly those used in electronic document exchange, document
management, and document publishing. HTML is an example of a
language defined in SGML.</p>

<p>SGML has been around since the middle 1980's and has remained
quite stable. Much of this stability stems from the fact that the
language is both feature-rich and flexible. This fl