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== Related programs ==

In the early 1980s, IBM developed a dedicated publishing tool called Information Structure Identification Language (ISIL) based on GML. ISIL was used to generate much of IBM documentation for the [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]] and other products at this time. In the late 1980s, a commercial product called BookMaster was developed, based mostly on ISIL.

During the early 1980s, Don Williams at IBM developed DWScript to use the SCRIPT/VS on the IBM PC.<ref>DWScript - Document Composition Facility for the IBM Personal Computer Version 4.6 Updates, DW-04167, Nov 8th, 1985</ref> In 1986, he developed a PC version of ISIL called DWISIL. These products were used only internally at IBM.

IBM uses GML as description language on [[IBM i]] and predecessors for objects called "panel groups". Panel groups can present just formatted help text to the user when pressing the [[help key]] (often F1), resemble the typical IBM i menus with embedded help texts, or complete application displays with input/output fields, and other [[Text-based user interface|TUI]] elements being formatted on screen according to [[IBM Common User Access|IBM CUA Standards]]. The overall facility is called [[User interface|User Interface]] Manager (UIM) and documented in ''Application Display Programming''.

== See also ==