I don't know why, but I always baulk when I see HTML and, for example, XML etc described as a 'language'. I may well be wrong, but these always seem to be more appropriately described as a 'syntax' rather than a 'language', at least in the computer science sense. Of course, maybe these are essentially synonymous, but 'language' has always implied to me a more active role, so that PHP would be a language, while HTML would be a syntax. Just thinking out loud. M is for Murray On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > HTML is a markup language used to describe the structure of a document; > presentation of HTML is controlled by either a client, with optional > instructions via attributes (bad) or css (good)
