Markup language is a way of text annotating and it is written in a different way from the text in itself. One of the most known way of markeup language is the Hypertext Markup Language or in other words, HTML this is one of the document formats in the world wide web, as well as another form of the SGML.
The term markup language comes from the “marking up” which means to add notes on one side of what has already been written. Apart from this type of markup language there are other types: GenCode, TeX, Scribe, GML, SGML, XML and XHTML.
•Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
•DocBook
•Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
•Extensible Markup Language (XML)
•Generalized Markup Language (GML)
•HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
The most common feature of the markedup language is that they intermix the text with the instructions. There is no necessity at all for doing this as they can be splited up by using pointers, offsets, IDs, or other methods to do so.
The information attached <like this> are markedup instructions and those with codes like h1, p, and em are examples.
References:
*Markup language. (2009, November 2). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:46, November 15, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Markup_language&oldid=323542392
*Definición de lenguje de marcas. (2009) In the webpage of Diccionario Informático. Retrieved, November 15, 2009 from http://www.alegsa.com.ar/Dic/lenguaje%20de%20marcas.php
