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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 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

See also

v t e Markup language varieties
Document General-purpose Geographic information Lightweight Mathematical Page description Playlist User interface Vector graphics XML Unclassified

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