This paper outlines the evolution of World Wide Web protocols. The paper reviews the original protocols developed for the Web, in addressing, transport and data formats. A review of developments of the protocols is given, including developments of web data formats (HTML 4.0, cascading stylesheets and XML), transport (HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/NG) and addressing (URLs). The paper describes how the web i...

SUMMARY An XML derived from a data model designed to be a hierarchical representation of an organism has been specified and a browser to use this language has been developed. AVAILABILITY The language definition is available in HTML form at http://www.proteometrics.com/BIOML/. The BioML browser is available on request from the author.

Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML application that provides a standard way to represent geographic information. GML is developed and maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), which is an international consortium consisting of more than 250 members from industry, government, and university departments. Many of the conceptual models described in the ISO 19100 series of geomatics...

1 Singh, S. and Gedeon, T. D. "Hypertext Tools in Speech and Language Therapy", Proc. 6th International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 233-238, (10-12 December, 1996). ABSTRACT This paper investigates hypertext tools in communication disorders, particularly in aphasia assessment and therapy. The assessment of language comprehension abilities can be facilit...

The promise of e-business is coming true: both businesses and individuals are using the Web to buy products and services. Both want to extend the reach of e-business to new environments. Customers want to check accounts, access information, and make purchases with their cellular phones, pagers, and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Banks, airlines, and retailers are competing to provide the m...

The Web has amply demonstrated the benefits of an infrastructure that makes publishing and reference of semi-structured information easily accessible, but in many cases reference and reuse of such information is only at the level of complete files. The potential for greater benefits that may derive from sub-document structure and reference is currently being explored, but this exploration is li...

QUEST is a system for Querying Semantically Tagged documents on the World-Wide Web. The advent of new markup languages, such as xml, facilitates authoring of Web documents that contain not just html tags for instructing a browser how to view a document, but also contain objects that represent the semantic structure of the document. When such documents become widely available, more powerful meth...