HTML Tags' Standards Reference

To be precise, HTML has had only two tag standards, HTML 3.2 and HTML 4. (The latter was updated in minor ways for HTML 4.01. XHTML 1 and XHTML 1.1 incorporate the HTML 4 documents as their tag components.) In this page we use the common, imprecise standards.

HTML "Standards"

HTML 1 Tim Berners-Lee's original HTML.
HTML 2 IETF RFC 1866. RFC 1942 and 1980, if specifically numbered.
HTML 3.2 W3C Recommendation as numbered, this site.
HTML 4.01 W3C Recommendation.
HTML 5 W3C Editor's Draft and WHATWG Living Standard.

There is an "outline-numbered" table, named on_table available that lists the location in each "standard" of each HTML tag. An "outline-numbered" system is one in which 4.10 sorts after 4.9, for example.

A Micro SQL

Columns available in on_table are Tag, HTML 1, HTML 2, HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 and HTML 5. A simple (proof-of-concept stage) SQL-like facility will report on this table. Available methods include:

select()—like an SQL SELECT. Provide a list of column names in the order you prefer. select( "*" ) is the default (and therefore redundant).
where()—like an SQL WHERE. Provide an expression in the form col_name op value where op is one of <, <=, ==, >=, > or != (<>).
order_by()—provide a single column name, optionally followed by an ordering function. The on_comp() function orders "x.10" after "x.9" and all numbered tags before any non-numbered tags.
to_table( output_div )—like an alert() except that it appends a DOM table to output_div (default: document.body). (Use on_table.to_table() to dump the whole table.)
Like most proof-of-concept stage systems, error handling is virtually non-existant. Good luck!

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