General purpose markup language

General purpose markup language

A general purpose markup language is a markup language that is used for more than one purpose or situation. Other, more specialized markup languages are often based upon these languages: i.e., HTML being based upon the syntax of SGML.

List

The following is a list of general purpose markup languages:

*ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One)
*EBML
*GML - the predecessor of SGML
*SGML - a predecessor of XML
*XML
* YAML

ee also

*Comparison of document markup languages
*Comparison of general purpose markup languages
*Markup language
*Simple Declarative Language [http://sdl.ikayzo.org]
*S-expression


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