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Markup language

A markup language is a text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationships among its parts. Markup can control the display of a document or enrich its content to facilitate automated processing.

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Markup language

Nodes123
Edges122
Triples67
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.01626
Components1

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Markup language

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related to GenCode · 17
Markup language → Book, Brian Reid, Carnegie Mellon University, Charles Goldfarb, GenCode, GML, Goldfarb, However, IBM, IBM's Generalized Markup Language, In, It, RUNOFF, Stanley Rice, The, Tunnicliffe, William
related to XML · 10
Markup language → At, Extensible Markup Language, Internet, It, Jon Bosak, SGML, The, W3C, World Wide Web Consortium, XML
related to Broader use · 8
Markup language → MathML, Most, SMIL, SVG, The, While, XHTML, XML
related to Features · 8
Markup language → For, However, HTML, IDs, Specifically, Such, The, This
related to troff and nroff · 6
Markup language → In, It, Some, The, Unix, WYSIWYG
see also · 4
Markup language → ADDMLComparison, List, ReStructuredTextSCRIPT, Style
is a · 2
Markup language → set of rules governing what markup information may be included in a document and how it is combined with the content of the document in a way to facilitate use by humans and com…, text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationships among its parts

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markup html sgml xml document text languages used language use many tex descriptive instructions documents example presentation typesetting also xhtml

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Markup languageis atext-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationships among its parts0.90text
Markup languageis aset of rules governing what markup information may be included in a document and how it is combined with the content of the document in a way to facilitate use by humans and com…0.90text
textinstance ofand where.A key characteristic of most markup languages is that they allow combining markup with content0.80text
picturesinstance ofand where.A key characteristic of most markup languages is that they allow combining markup with content0.80text
correctionsinstance ofall of whom might also mark things0.80text
changesinstance ofall of whom might also mark things0.80text
XMLinstance ofpresentational markup is often saved in descriptive-markup-oriented systems0.80text
and then processed procedurally by implementationsinstance ofpresentational markup is often saved in descriptive-markup-oriented systems0.80text
RUNOFF that each used their own control notationinstance ofIt can be seen as a response to the emergence of processing programs0.80text
often specific to the target typesetting deviceinstance ofIt can be seen as a response to the emergence of processing programs0.80text
troffinstance ofSome early examples of computer markup languages available outside the publishing industry can be found in typesetting tools on Unix systems0.80text
nroffinstance ofSome early examples of computer markup languages available outside the publishing industry can be found in typesetting tools on Unix systems0.80text

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