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unusual facts about markup language


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


Deprecation

Early versions of the Web markup language HTML included a FONT element, to allow page designers to specify the font in which text should be displayed.

James Pustejovsky

The TimeML project is a standard markup language for temporal events in a document, and has recently been adopted as ISO-TImeML by the ISO.

Pagination

This usually involves a markup language (such as XML, HTML, or SGML) that tags the content semantically and machine-readably, which allows downstream technologies (such as XSLT, XSL, or CSS) to output them into whatever presentation is desired.

Peter Murray-Rust

With Henry Rzepa he has extended this to chemistry through the development of markup languages, especially Chemical Markup Language.

Useware

The use model is modeled using the Useware Markup Language, useML (Reuther, 2003) within a model based development environment.

Web browser engine

A web browser engine (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine) is a software component that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen.


see also

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.

CAML

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

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.

SSML

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

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