Tag Languages

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Tag Languages

In a markup language (ML) such as HTML, there are a limited number of specific tags, each of which is easily identified by its standard format:

< + tag name + optional list of attributes + >

For example:

<HTML> or <TABLE WIDTH=”100%”>

Browsers recognize these tags and treat them in a particular way. Some HTML tags define the following:

Presentation-how a page looks (either its layout or some of its attributes, such as the font color)
Hyperlinks-links to other documents or to parts of the same document

In the same way, Web Option has a number of tags that are recognized by the router. A Markup Language Skeleton generated for a CA 2E function consists of the following:

HTML tags - provide much of the presentation elements of the final HTML page.
Web Option tags - define how live data should be merged into the MLS by the Web Option server at runtime.

At runtime, the server scans the skeleton for Web Option tags. For each Web Option tag it finds, the server performs certain processing, such as replacing the tag with specified live data, thus producing a full HTML page containing live data. It is this HTML page, and not the original skeleton, that is sent to the browser for display.

For a list of the Web Option Markup Language Tags currently in use, see the appendix Markup Language Tags. Use this appendix to better understand the HTML skeletons CA 2E generates and to create your own Markup Language skeletons

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