A markup language is an artificial language that uses a set of annotations to text that give information about the structure of the text or how it must be displayed. There are more than one markup language but, probably, the most popular ones are the HTML and the XML because of their massive use in the World Wide Web. Both of them have its origin in the SGML but after analysing them we can find some differences:
Archive for December 28th, 2008
Third debate in the Moodle forum
Published 28 December, 2008 IST , Littera Leave a CommentTags: HTML, Markup language, Moodle, W3C, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium, XHTML, XML
Web content, in depth
Published 28 December, 2008 IST , Littera Leave a CommentTags: Content, HTML, Louis Rosenfeld, Media, Peter Morville, Technology, Tim Berners-Lee, Web content, Web content development, XML
When we talk about content we are referring to a piece of information that, for any reason, is valuable for users and that could be delivered by different media such as the Internet, books, television, audio CD’s, or even live events like conferences, presentations or expositions.

Content architecture representation
Today, however, we are going to focus and put the stress on the accurate analysis of the Web content and its development. First of all, let’s define what we should understand by Web content development. We call Web content development to the process of researching, gathering and editing information for publication on Web sites. Web site content may consist of texts, graphics, pictures, movies… distributed by a hypertext protocol server, and viewed by a Web browser. Surprisingly, Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, two important information architecture researchers, also include in the Web content the future applications of the Web that do not exist right now.