The purpose of sgml was to help very large organizations format and categorize large collections of documents .

sgml的目标是帮助特大型组织对大量文档格式化并归类。

Information processing - sgml support facilities - techniques for using sgml - part 11 : application at iso central secretariat for international standards and technical reports .

资讯处理标准通用标示语言支援设施标准通用标示语言的使用技术第１１部：ＩＳＯ中央秘书处之国际标准与技术报告应用。

Like sgml before it , xml is a metalanguage : it is a syntactic basis for defining further languages .

和以前的sgml一样，xml是一种元语言：定义其他语言的语法基础。

Despite its name , sgml is not a language in itself , but a way of defining languages that are developed along its general principles .

尽管名称是标准通用标记语言，但是sgml本身不是语言，而是定义根据其通用原则开发的语言的一种方式。

Those languages ( such as html in the case of sgml , and xhtml in the case of xml ) are the applications -- not to be confused with applications of programmer code ( software applications ) , such as the mozilla firefox web browser .

这些语言（比如html对于sgml，xhtml对于xml）是应用，不要与程序员编写的应用程序（软件应用程序）如mozillafirefoxweb浏览器相混淆。