- In fact, HTML is an SGML application. Both use <quote>tags</quote>
- to format text and other content. SGML tags are much more varied,
- and flexible, but do much of the same kinds of things. The tags,
- or <quote>elements</quote>, are definable in SGML. There is no
- set <quote>standards</quote>. Since we are using
- <application>Docbook</application>, our tags are those that are
- defined by <application>Docbook</application>. Much of how the
- finish document is rendered is determined by the <quote>stylesheets</quote>.
- The stylesheets determine how each tag gets translated to HTML, or
- other formats.
+ Actually, not a mark up language per se, but a language used to define
+ markup languages. In fact, HTML is an SGML application. Both will use
+ <quote>tags</quote> to format text and other content. SGML tags can be much
+ more varied, and flexible, but do much of the same kinds of things. The tags,
+ or <quote>elements</quote>, are definable in SGML. There is no set
+ <quote>standards</quote>. Since we are using
+ <application>Docbook</application>, our tags are those that are defined by
+ <application>Docbook</application>. Much of how the finish document is
+ rendered is determined by the <quote>stylesheets</quote>.
+ The stylesheets determine how each tag gets translated to HTML, or other
+ formats.