SGML and HTML are separate languages. HTML was originally based off some of SGML, with some significant simplifications. Since then, HTML has grown separately from SGML.
Neither language is contained within the other.
HTML was originally developed as an application inside SGML, but the first official version was HTML 2.0
Yes web pages are written in 'html' (Hyper Text Mark-up Language), which is an implemented subset of 'sgml' (The Standard Generalized Markup Language (ISO 8879:1986 SGML).
No one "discovered" HTML. It was a natural outgrowth of existing markup languages. In particular, HTML has a lot in common with SGML, and anyone who already knew SGML (which was a lot of people in the academic community) could pick up the few additional things they needed to know for early versions of HTML pretty quickly.
<html> <head> <title> <body>
Some versions are not just similar to, but actually valid, XML (extensible markup language.) HTML also bears a resemblance to the my older SGML.
The declaration must be the very first thing in your HTML document, before the tag.The declaration is not an HTML tag; it is an instruction to the web browser about what version of HTML the page is written in.In HTML 4.01, the declaration refers to a DTD, because HTML 4.01 was based on SGML. The DTD specifies the rules for the markup language, so that the browsers render the content correctly.HTML5 is not based on SGML, and therefore does not require a reference to a DTD.Tip: Always add the declaration to your HTML documents, so that the browser knows what type of document to expect.
HTML is a standardized programming language for describing and drawing page contents that is used by web browsers. It is a simplified subset of SGML and is related to XML.
HTML XHTML SGML MathML XML GML are a few Markup Languages to name
An HTML validator is used to check the validity or syntactical correctness of a fragment code or document. It also technically refers to validation using DTDs by SGML tools.
HTML, a subset of the ISO standard SGML.
That would be Tim Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly, if you are looking for the writers of the first IETF draft HTML spec. Though Tim was strongly influenced by, and considered HTML to be an application of SGML, SGML in itself was a descendant of GML from IBM and that was originally developed by 3 people, Charles Goldfarb, Edward Mosher, and Raymond Lorie in the 1960s.
Both are markup languages and subsets of the ISO, SGML standard.HTML is good for describing magazine like pages of communication (text), while XML is good for describing how data is to be handled (it deals with meta data).Thus as you can see the XML and HTML are tuned for doing different things.