DynaText is an SGML publishing tool. It was introduced in 1990, and was the first system to handle arbitrarily large SGML documents, and to render them according to multiple style-sheets that could be switched at will.

DynaText and its Web sibling DynaWeb won multiple Seybold and other awards http://xml.coverpages.org/ebt-award.htmlhttp://xml.coverpages.org/dynaweb3-dvi.html, and there are eleven US Patents related to the DynaText technology: 5,557,722; 5,644,776; 5,708,806; 5,893,109; 5,983,248; 6,055,544; 6,101,511; 6,101,512; 6,105,044; 6,167,409; and 6,546,406.

DynaText was developed by Electronic Book Technologies, Incorporated, of Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...

. EBT was founded by Louis Reynolds, Steven DeRose

Steven DeRose

Steven J DeRose is a computer scientist with a significant history of contributions to Computational Linguistics and to key standards related to document processing, mostly around ISO's Standard Generalized Markup Language and W3C's Extensible Markup Language .His contributions include the...

, Jeffrey Vogel, and Andries van Dam

Andries van Dam

Andries "Andy" van Dam is a Dutch-born American professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, HES in the late 1960s. He co-authored Computer Graphics:...

, and was sold to Inso

INSO

INSO may refer to:*Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra*Stellent, a software company *InfoSoft International, a software company that is no longer in business....

 corporation in 1996.

DynaText heavily influenced stylesheet technologies such as DSSSL and CSS

CSS

-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...

, and XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

 chairman Jon Bosak

Jon Bosak

Jon Bosak led the creation of the XML specification at the W3C. From 1996–2008, he worked for Sun Microsystems.-XML:Tim Bray, who was one of the editors of the XML specification, has this to say in his note on Bosak in his annotated version of the specification:In a 1999 posting to the xml-dev...

 cites EBT chief architect Steven DeRose

Steven DeRose

Steven J DeRose is a computer scientist with a significant history of contributions to Computational Linguistics and to key standards related to document processing, mostly around ISO's Standard Generalized Markup Language and W3C's Extensible Markup Language .His contributions include the...

 as the origin of the notion of well-formedness formalized in XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

, as well as DynaText for influencing the design of Web browsers in general http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/cv.htm.

Inso

INSO

INSO may refer to:*Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra*Stellent, a software company *InfoSoft International, a software company that is no longer in business....

corporation went out of business in 2002.