List of document markup languages
The following is a list of document markup languages. You may also find the List of markup languages of interest.
Well-known document markup languages
- HyperText Markup Language – an ad hoc markup language that was originally created for the World Wide Web, took inspiration from the metalanguage SGML, and inspired many other markup languages
- Keyhole Markup Language – an XML-based markup language used to exchange geographic information, originally, for use with Google Earth and, now also, other map programs
- Markdown – a simple, plain text markup language with multiple implementations, popular on blogs and content management systems
- Mathematical Markup Language – a part of the HTML5 standard, an XML-based markup language used to describe mathematical notations as well as capturing their structure and content, intended to integrate mathematical formulae in the World Wide Web and other documents
- Scalable Vector Graphics – an XML-based vector image format for defining two-dimensional graphics that has support for animations and interactive content
- TeX, LaTeX – a format for describing complex types and page layouts that is often used for mathematical, technical, and academic publications
- Wiki markup – one of a number of often lightweight markup languages used on wikis such as Wikipedia or WikiWikiWeb
- Extensible 3D – a set of graphics file formats for declaratively representing 3D computer graphics that has support for interactive, network-capable content
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language – a markup language that mirrors HTML, written in the XML syntax
- * XHTML Basic – a subset of XHTML for simple devices, meant to replace the Wireless Markup Language and Compact HTML markup languages, as well as XHTML's own Mobile Profile
Metalanguages
- Standard Generalized Markup Language – a metalanguage used to describe markup languages, of which XML and DocBook, as well as versions of HTML prior to HTML5 adhere to
- Extensible Markup Language – now the base of hundreds of other markup languages and document formats, an application and more restrictive subset of SGML that was designed to be easier to implement than a full SGML parser
Lesser-known document markup languages
- ABC notation – markup language for music scores in pure text
- Amigaguide – the Amiga hypertext documentation format, including multimedia support
- AsciiDoc – plaintext markup language similar to Markdown
- Chemical Markup Language
- Compact HyperText Markup Language – used for some mobile phones
- Computable Document Format – used for interactive technical documents
- ConTeXt – a modular, structured formatting language based on TeX
- Darwin Information Typing Architecture – modular open free format for technical and specialized documents
- DocBook – format for technical manuals and documentation
- Encoded Archival Description
- Enriched text – for formatting e-mail text
- GML
- * Generalized Markup Language – the Document Composition Facility product provides GMLSS, a starter set of GML tags implemented as a set of SCRIPT/VS macros.
- * Geography Markup Language
- * Gesture Markup Language
- * Graffiti Markup Language
- GNU TeXmacs format – used by the GNU TeXmacs document preparation system
- Guide Markup Language – used by the Hitchhiker's Guide site
- Handheld Device Markup Language – designed for smartphones and handheld computers
- Help Markup Language
- Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language
- HyperTeX – for including hyperlinks in TeX documents
- Information Presentation Facility – a system for presenting online help and hypertext on IBM OS/2 systems, and the default help file format used by the cross-platform fpGUI Toolkit project
- Journal Article Tag Suite – a NISO standard of XML used to describe and publish STEM scholarly journal articles
- LilyPond – a system for music notation
- LinuxDoc – used by the Linux Documentation Project
- Lout – a document formatting functional programming language, similar in style to LaTeX
- Maker Interchange Format
- Microsoft Assistance Markup Language
- Music Encoding Initiative
- Music Extensible Markup Language
- Open Mathematical Documents
- OpenMath – a markup language for mathematical formulae which can complement MathML
- Parameter Value Language – stores mission data in NASA's Planetary Database System
- Plain Old Documentation – a simple, platform-independent documentation tool for Perl
- Pillar – a markup syntax and associated tools to write and generate documentation written in Pharo
- PUB – an early markup language with scripting support
- Remote Telescope Markup Language
- reStructuredText – plaintext platform-independent markup used as Python libraries documentation tool, multiple output formats
- Retail Template Markup Language – e-commerce language which is based on Lisp
- Revisable-Form Text – part of IBM's Document Content Architecture to allow transfer of formatted documents to other systems
- S1000D – international specification for technical documentation related to commercial or military; aerospace, sea or land; vehicles or equipment
- Scribble – Markup language based on Racket
- Scribe – Brian Reid's seminal markup language
- Script – early IBM markup language on which GML is built
- Semantic, Extensible, Computational, Styled, Tagged markup language – a more expressive and semantic alternative to Markdown that also transpiles to HTML
- Structured Information, Serialized Units – generalized markup language with several output formats
- SKiCal – a machine-readable format for the interchange of enhanced yellow-page directory listings
- Skriv – lightweight markup language
- Texinfo – GNU documentation format
- Text Encoding Initiative – guidelines for text encoding in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics
- Textile – plaintext XHTML web text
- Time Management Markup Language – for Time Management and rarely used for mobile alarm in 2008
- Typesetter roff, GNU troff
- Universal Document Output – a lightweight markup language
- Wireless Markup Language, Wireless TV Markup Language
- Extensible Application Markup Language – an XML based user interface markup language
- Xupl – a C-style equivalent to XML
Office document markup languages
- Compound Document Format
- Microsoft Office 2003 XML formats – Microsoft's predecessor to the Office Open XML formats
- Office Open XML – mainly developed by Microsoft, a standardized, open format for office documents that describes of a number of XML schemas, including the following:
- * SpreadsheetML – a schema for representing spreadsheets and charts
- * PresentationML – a schema for representing presentations
- * WordprocessingML – a schema for representing word processing documents
- * DrawingML – a supporting schema for representing charts, shapes, pictures, tables, diagrams, and document themes
- OpenDocument – a standardized, open format for office documents originally conceived by a Technical Committee under the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards industry consortium
- OpenOffice.org XML – a standardized, open format for office documents and the predecessor of the OpenDocument format
- ReportML – report format language originating from Microsoft Access that, as of the 2016 edition, is not yet a part of Office Open XML standard
- Rich Text Format – though not a markup language per se, since it was never meant for intuitive and easy typing, a Microsoft format for exchanging documents with other vendors' applications
- Uniform Office Format – an open format for office documents that is being harmonised with OpenDocument