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Document Structure vs. Form
An illustration from the book:
Practical SGML by Eric van Herwijnen ISBN 079230635X was shown.
Some examples of the structure of a document include:
- A title of chapter
- A title of paragraph
- A text in a paragraph
- A sequentially ordered list
- A table
- A table column
- A table row
- A table entry
Some examples of the form of a document include:
- A description of the typeface used in a line (e.g., name = "Bodini",
size = 14 points, weight = boldface)
- The margins on the page
- The size of the letters (e.g. 12 point type)
- The distance between columns in a table (e.g. 2 points)
Web pages are designed to work on a many different computers and supports
a variety of output devices. To support this, HTML give a web author
control over the broad structure
of a web page instead of its form .
