Markup

Revision as of 14:10, 7 December 2014

Markup languages express the structure and/or presentation of a document through the use of tags, elements, and embedded commands and codes. They are distinguished from programming languages, because instead of giving instructions to be executed, markup elements designate the nature, purpose, or style of text and media which is part of a document.

General markup

• SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Format)
• XML
  • Binary XML

Markup metaformats

• DTD (Document Type Definition); used to define document formats in markup languages
• XML Schema Definition

Text markup

• CommonMark (variant of Markdown, attempted to be more standardized)
• LaTeX (User-friendly version of TeX used by mathematicians, computer scientists etc)
• Markdown
• reStructuredText
• Scribe
• TEI (Text Encoding Initiative; Specialised dialect of SGML)
• TeX (TeX type-setting language created by Donald Knuth)
• Wiki markup

Web document markup

• HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
  • Compressed Markup Language (compact binary form of HTML used in PalmOS)
• WML
• XHTML (Extensible HTML)

Specialized markup

• AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language)
• CML (Chemical Markup Language)
• Fountain (intended for screenplays)
• Opus Embedded Commands (OEC)
• Rant (programming/markup language for generating text)

See also Document,Text-based data, and News media.

Links

• Remember the Nineties (complaint about how markup languages are still in use instead of more user-friendly WYSIWYG stuff)