markup language

n. Computers A coding system, such as HTML and SGML, used to structure, index, and link text files.

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markup language - a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a documentnomenclature, terminology, language - a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology"SGML, standard generalized markup language - (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adoptedHTML, hypertext markup language, hypertext mark-up language - a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents

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markup language

[′märk‚əp ‚laŋ·gwij] (computer science) A set of rules and procedures for markup.

markup language

A set of labels that are embedded within text to distinguish individual elements or groups of elements for display or identification purposes. The labels are typically known as "tags."

For rendering (displaying and printing), markup languages indicate where font and other layout changes start and stop. For content identification, markup languages turn a text document into the equivalent of a database record in which individual data elements can be located for processing. In a database, elements are placed in a predefined structure. In a document, data elements reside in a freeform structure like text and must be identified with tags that mark their beginning and end.

It All Started with SGML
SGML is the granddaddy markup language that served as the foundation for HTML and XML. HTML is used for rendering the document, and XML is used for identifying the content of the document. See XML vocabulary, microformat, SGML, HTML and XML.

markup language

Related to markup language: hypertext markup language, XML, standard generalized markup language, EXtensible Markup Language

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noun a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document

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SGML
standard generalized markup language
HTML
hypertext markup language
hypertext mark-up language