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 4.1 and earlier are domain-specific markup languages, and are 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
- EBML
- GML – the predecessor of SGML
- SGML – a predecessor of XML
- TOML
- XML – a stripped-down form of SGML
- YAML
- JSON