markup language

A Dictionary of the Internet | 2001 | 700+ words | Copyright

markup language A text-processing language which embeds commands into the text that is to be processed. These commands then instruct a display device or a printer to carry out some formatting. For example, the command <BR> found in HTML instructs a BROWSER to issue a line break. Markup languages have a long history and were the main medium for word and document processing in the 1970s and 1980s. However, they were eclipsed by more sophisticated word processors in the late 1980s. There is now a renaissance of such languages due to the fact that the main tool for developing Web pages is the HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE which is an archetypal markup language. Other important markup languages which are associated with the Internet are the EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE and the STANDARDIZED GENERAL MARKUP LANGUAGE.

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