General-purpose markup language
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A general-purpose markup language is a markup language that is used for more than one purpose or situation. Other, more specialized domain-specific markup languages are often based upon these languages. For example, HTML 4.1 and earlier are domain-specific markup languages (for webpages), and are based on the syntax of SGML, which is a general-purpose markup language.
List
[edit]Notable general-purpose markup languages include:
- ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One)
- EBML
- GML – the predecessor of SGML
- SGML – a predecessor of XML
- TOML
- XML – a stripped-down form of SGML[1]
- YAML
- JSON
See also
[edit]- Comparison of document markup languages
- General-purpose language
- General-purpose modeling
- General-purpose programming language
- S-expression
References
[edit]- ^ Szeredi, Péter; Lukácsy, Gergely (11 September 2014). The Semantic Web Explained: The Technology and Mathematics behind Web 3.0. Cambridge University Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-521-70036-8. Retrieved 18 November 2024.