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unusual facts about Markup


Markup

Markup language, a notation used to annotate a document's content to give information regarding the structure of the text or instructions for how it is to be displayed


AGML

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is particularly well suited to represent biological data and methods and is the choice to do this in most areas.

ATML

Automatic Test Markup Language (ATML) is a collection of XML Schemas that allows Automatic Test Systems (ATS) to exchange test information in a common format adhering to the XML standard.

Bobbyjo

Bobbyjo (1990–2001) was an Irish bred racehorse by Bustineto and Markup, best remembered as the winner of the 1999 Grand National steeplechase at Aintree.

CAML

Collaborative Application Markup Language, an XML-based markup language used with the Microsoft SharePoint collaborative portal application

Designing with Web Standards

The Web Standards movement pioneered by Glenn Davis, George Olsen, Jeffrey Zeldman, Steven Champeon, Todd Fahrner, Eric A. Meyer, Tantek Çelik, Dori Smith, Tim Bray, Jeffrey Veen, and other members of the Web Standards Project in the 1990s replaced bandwidth-heavy tag soup with light, semantic markup and progressive enhancement, with the goal of making web content "accessible to all".

Federal Employees' Distributing Company

It was founded by 800 U.S. Post Office employees who wanted to leverage their buying power by purchasing goods directly from wholesalers, and eliminate the additional markup of a retail store.

Infobox

The values are in wiki markup: entries enclosed in square brackets (e.g. - Tart) will be rendered as a link to the respective Wikipedia article (e.g. - //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tart Tart), and the linked file will be transcluded into the article in place of its markup.

John Gruber

His side projects include Markdown, a lightweight markup language, and a podcast called The Talk Show that he hosts on the Mule Radio Syndicate network.

MSCML

The Media Server Control Markup Language (MSCML) is a protocol used in conjunction with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to enable the delivery of advanced multimedia conferencing services over IP networks.

Online help

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which includes HTML Help, HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, and Oracle Help

PPML

PPML (Personalized Print Markup Language) is an XML-based industry standard printer language for variable data printing defined by PODi.

Qualcomm

After integrating the company, Qualcomm re-branded their interface markup language, TrigML, and its accompanying integrated development environment (IDE) as uiOne.

SofTech, Inc.

ProductCenter integrates with CAD systems such as Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, CADRA, Unigraphics, Catia and ME-10 as well as non-CAD integrations to MS Office and Adobe FrameMaker and view/markup/collaboration integration to Cimmetry’s AutoVue.

SSML

Speech Synthesis Markup Language, an XML-based markup language for speech synthesis applications.

Vanilla software

As example, IBM's mainframe text publishing system BookMaster, provides a default way to specify which parts of a book to publish, called "vanilla", and a fancier way, called "mocha".

WapTV

The WTVML markup language is a heavily extended superset of the WAP Forum WML 1.3 specification.

The system is an Interactive television technology platform comprising a microbrowser, a markup language, and a significant collection of associated software tools and services.

Well known

Well-known text, text markup language for representing vector geometry objects

WKT

Well-known text, a text markup language for representing vector geometry objects on a map

XRC

XML Resource - a user interface markup language used by wxWidgets


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