General-purpose markup language
A general-purpose markup language is a markup language that is used for more than one purpose or situation. Other, more specialized domain-specific markup languages are often based upon these languages. For example, HTML is a domain-specific markup language (for webpages), and is based on the syntax of SGML, which is a general-purpose markup language.
List
Notable general-purpose markup languages include:
- ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One)
- EBML
- GML - the predecessor of SGML
- SGML - a predecessor of XML
- XML
- YAML
See also
- Comparison of document markup languages
- General-purpose language
- General-purpose modeling language
- General-purpose programming language
- S-expression
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