ITRI SEMINAR
               Thursday 30th October at 12.00

          "Separating presentation from structure:
               an introduction to XML and XSL"

                      Henry S. Thompson
               Language Technology Group, HCRC
                   University of Edinburgh

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a draft standard of  the
W3C, the committee which oversees the World-Wide Web. It  is
intended to bridge the gap between HTML (fixed tag set,  too
presentation-oriented)   and   SGML   (too   complex,    not
presentation-oriented  enough),  and  accordingly  has  been
called SGML-Lite or HTML-Heavy.

XSL (eXtensible  Style Language)  is a  proposal for  a  W3C
standard, intended to  provide a  mechanism for  associating
style information with arbitrary XML documents, so they  can
be rendered for screen or print delivery.

I've been involved  in drafting  both of them,  and in  this
talk I'll  introduce both  standards at  a modest  level  of
technical detail, and then suggest how I think their  advent
will impact on the business of computational linguistics.