Talk:Markup

Similar to what I said about Binary Data, I think that Markup should rarely if ever be a format's primary category. A format should be categorized based on its purpose, not its low level structure.

A lot of our Markup formats involve hypertext. The distinction between hypertext, hypermedia, and a lot of modern Document formats is blurry. For convenience, I lean toward lumping hypertext and hypermedia together, in a section named either "Hypermedia" or "Hypertext and Hypermedia". Even then, I'm not sure if a format like Markdown would be Hypermedia, or Document.

This proposed list of primary category changes includes all articles whose primary category is Markup.
 * Accelerated Mobile Pages:   Web → Hypermedia
 * AIML:                       Markup → Scientific Data formats?
 * Binary XML:                 Markup → Metaformats
 * CommonMark:                 Markup → Document (or Hypermedia?)
 * Compressed Markup Language: Web → Hypermedia
 * DTD:                        Markup → Metaformats
 * Fountain:                   Markup → Document
 * HTML:                       Markup → Hypermedia
 * LaTeX:                      Markup → Document
 * Markdeep:                   Markup → Document (or Hypermedia?)
 * Markdown:                   Markup → Document (or Hypermedia?)
 * MHTML:                      Web → Hypermedia
 * OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language): Markup → Hypermedia
 * RASH:                       Markup → Hypermedia
 * reStructuredText:           Markup → Document (or Hypermedia?)
 * Scholarly HTML:             Markup → Hypermedia
 * Scribe:                     Markup → Document
 * SGML:                       Markup → Metaformats
 * TeX:                        Markup → Document
 * Text Encoding Initiative:   Markup → Document?
 * Wiki markup:                Web → Hypermedia
 * XML:                        Markup → Metaformats
 * XML Schema Definition:      Markup → Metaformats

Jsummers (talk) 15:56, 9 April 2016 (UTC)


 * That probably makes sense, though as you note some of them get a bit questionable to categorize... that was the appeal of vague categories like "Markup". Dan Tobias (talk) 20:01, 9 April 2016 (UTC)


 * On reconsideration, I think that leaving the general markup formats (SGML, XML) and the plaintext/richtext hybrid formats (Markdown, etc.) in Markup is as good as anything else. I still want to move HTML and friends, and probably TeX and others. Jsummers (talk) 14:59, 10 April 2016 (UTC)