Web Science/Part1: Foundations of the web/Web Architecture/Web Content/Markup Languages

Learning objectives

• Understand the difference between content and structure
• Understand that this difference is realized in different markup languages, such as:

* Wiki
* HTML  
* SVG
* Latex
* Flash
* Postscript
* PDF
* ...

• Understand the basics of XML

* that it is a *meta language* to define a markup language
* that it has syntactic restrictions
* that it implies a structure (DOM tree, XPath navigation)

• Be able to define an own markup schema (informally, not using DTDs or XML schema) and apply it

sublessons

• Topic:Web_Science/Part1:_Foundations_of_the_web/Web_Architecture/Web_Content/Problem_Setting_for_Web_Content_Formats
• Topic:Web_Science/Part1:_Foundations_of_the_web/Web_Architecture/Web_Content/Working_with_XML