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.

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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

Markup language varieties

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