List of document markup languages
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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 (HTML) – 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 (KML/KMZ) – an XML-based markup language used to exchange geographic information, originally, for use with Google Earth and, now also, other map programs[1]
- Markdown – a simple, plain text markup language with multiple implementations, popular on blogs and content management systems[2]
- Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) – 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 (SVG) – 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 (X3D) – a set of graphics file formats for declaratively representing 3D computer graphics that has support for interactive, network-capable content
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) – a markup language that mirrors HTML, written in the XML syntax
- XHTML Basic – a subset of XHTML for simple (typically mobile, handheld) devices, meant to replace the Wireless Markup Language (WML) and Compact HTML (C-HTML) markup languages, as well as XHTML's own Mobile Profile (XHTML MP)
Metalanguages
- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) – 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 (XML) – now the base of hundreds[3] 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
(including some lightweight markup languages)
- ABC notation – markup language for music scores in pure text[4]
- Amigaguide – the Amiga hypertext documentation format, including multimedia support
- AsciiDoc – plaintext markup language similar to Markdown
- Chemical Markup Language (CML)
- Compact HyperText Markup Language (C-HTML) – 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 (DITA) – modular open free format for technical and specialized documents
- DocBook – format for technical (but not only) manuals and documentation
- Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
- Enriched text – for formatting e-mail text
- GML
- Generalized Markup Language (GML) – the Document Composition Facility (DCF) product provides GMLSS, a starter set of GML tags implemented as a set of SCRIPT/VS macros.
- Geography Markup Language (GML)[5][6]
- Gesture Markup Language (GML)[7]
- Graffiti Markup Language (GML)[8]
- GNU TeXmacs format – used by the GNU TeXmacs document preparation system[9]
- Guide Markup Language (GuideML) – used by the Hitchhiker's Guide site[10]
- Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) – designed for smartphones and handheld computers
- Help Markup Language (HelpML)
- Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime)
- HyperTeX – for including hyperlinks in TeX (and LaTeX) documents
- Information Presentation Facility (IPF) – 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 (JATS) – 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 (MIF)
- Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML)
- Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)
- Music Extensible Markup Language (MusicXML)
- Nytril – a document programming language for engineering and scientific texts[11]
- Open Mathematical Documents (OMDoc)
- 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 (POD) – a simple, platform-independent documentation tool for Perl[12]
- Pillar – a markup syntax and associated tools to write and generate documentation written in Pharo[13]
- PUB – an early markup language with scripting support[14]
- Remote Telescope Markup Language (RTML)
- reStructuredText (reSt) – plaintext platform-independent markup used as Python libraries documentation tool, multiple output formats (HTML, LaTeX, ODT, EPUB, ...)[15]
- Retail Template Markup Language (RTML) – e-commerce language which is based on Lisp
- Revisable-Form Text (RFT) – 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[16][17]
- Scribe – Brian Reid's seminal markup language
- Script – early IBM markup language on which GML is built
- Semantic, Extensible, Computational, Styled, Tagged markup language (SECST) – a more expressive and semantic alternative to Markdown that also transpiles to HTML[18]
- Structured Information, Serialized Units (SiSU) – generalized markup language with several output formats[19]
- 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 (TEI) – guidelines for text encoding in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics
- Textile – plaintext XHTML web text
- Time Management Markup Language[20] (TMML) – for Time Management and rarely used for mobile alarm in 2008
- Typesetter roff (troff), GNU troff (groff)
- Typst – a document typesetting language for scientific texts[21]
- Universal Document Output (UDO) – a lightweight markup language
- Wireless Markup Language (WML), Wireless TV Markup Language (WTVML)
- Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) – 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 (OOXML) – 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[22]: 19
- OpenDocument (ODF) – a standardized, open format for office documents originally conceived by a Technical Committee (TC) under the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) 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 (RTF) – 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[23][24]
- Uniform Office Format (UOF) – an open format for office documents that is being harmonised with OpenDocument[when?]
See also
- Comparison of document markup languages
- Comparison of Office Open XML and OpenDocument
- Lightweight markup language
- Page description language
References
- ↑ Google Developers: Keyhole Markup Language KML Reference. Accessed on 2013/03/15.
- ↑ "Daring Fireball: Markdown". http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/.
- ↑ Cover, Robin, ed. "XML Applications and Initiatives". http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlApplications.html.
- ↑ "Abc:standard [abc wiki]". http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard.
- ↑ Open Geospatial Consortium, "Geography Markup Language", OGC accessed on 2013/03/15.
- ↑ Geography Markup Language is an ISO standard (ISO 19136:2007).
- ↑ Gesture Markup Language GestureML Wiki . Extensible markup language used to define gestures that describe interactive object behavior and the relationships between objects in an application. Accessed on 2013/03/15.
- ↑ Graffiti Markup Language Graffiti Markup Language. Designed to maximize readability and ease of implementation for even hobbyist programmers, artists and graffiti writers. Accessed on 2013/03/15.
- ↑ "The TeXmacs format". https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/manual/webman-format.en.html.
- ↑ h2g2
- ↑ McCreight, Shawn (2025-10-14). "Nytril: A programming language and a markup language in one" (in en). https://www.reddit.com/r/nytril/comments/1ngwoi5/nytril_a_programming_language_and_a_markup/. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ "Perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format - Perldoc Browser". http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html.
- ↑ "Documenting and Presenting with Pillar". https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/EnterprisePharoBook/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/book-result/PillarChap/Pillar.html.
- ↑ PUB Manual
- ↑ "ReStructuredText". 24 May 2016. https://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html.
- ↑ Flatt, M.; Barzilay, E.; Findler, R. B. (2009). "Scribble: Closing the Book on Ad Hoc Documentation Tools".
- ↑ "Scribble: The Racket Documentation Tool". https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/.
- ↑ SECST Markup Language SECST Markup Language
- ↑ "≅ SiSU project sisudoc.org". http://www.sisudoc.org.
- ↑ "TMML tutorial" (in en-US). https://sites.google.com/view/tmml.
- ↑ Phillips, Lee (2025-09-17). "Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement" (in en). https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/. Retrieved 2026-04-12.
- ↑ ECMA-376-1:2016: Office Open XML File Formats — Fundamentals and Markup Language Reference (5th ed.). Ecma-international.org. https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-376-1_5th_edition_december_2016.zip. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
- ↑ RTF Pocket Guide by O'Reilly Media, https://www.scribd.com/doc/15490806/RTF-Pocket-Guide-by-OReilly-Media, retrieved 2010-03-13
- ↑ Sean M. Burke (July 2003). "RTF Pocket Guide". https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/product-description/0596004753.
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