List of 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 programsGoogle Developers: Keyhole Markup Language [https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kmlreference KML Reference]. Accessed on 2013/03/15.
• Markdown – a simple, plain text markup language with multiple implementations, popular on blogs and content management systems{{cite web|url=http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ |title=Daring Fireball: Markdown |access-date=2014-04-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040402182332/http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ |archive-date=2004-04-02 }}
• 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)

• 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{{cite web |url= http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlApplications.html |title= XML Applications and Initiatives |editor-first=Robin|editor-last=Cover|website=XML Cover Pages |access-date=16 November 2017}} 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

(including some lightweight markup languages)

• ABC notation – markup language for music scores in pure text{{Cite web|url=http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard|title = Abc:standard [abc wiki]}}
• 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)Open Geospatial Consortium, [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml "Geography Markup Language"], OGC accessed on 2013/03/15.Geography Markup Language is an ISO standard (ISO 19136:2007).
• Gesture Markup Language (GML)Gesture Markup Language [http://www.gestureml.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page GestureML Wiki] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310023247/http://www.gestureml.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page |date=2013-03-10 }}. 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 (GML)Graffiti Markup Language [http://www.graffitimarkuplanguage.com Graffiti Markup Language]. Designed to maximize readability and ease of implementation for even hobbyist programmers, artists and graffiti writers. Accessed on 2013/03/15.
• GNU TeXmacs format – used by the GNU TeXmacs document preparation system{{Cite web|title=The TeXmacs format|url=https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/manual/webman-format.en.html}}
• Guide Markup Language (GuideML) – used by the Hitchhiker's Guide site[https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/ h2g2]
• 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)
• 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{{Cite web|url=http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html|title=Perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format - Perldoc Browser}}
• Pillar – a markup syntax and associated tools to write and generate documentation written in Pharo{{Cite web|url=https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/EnterprisePharoBook/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/book-result/PillarChap/Pillar.html |title=Documenting and Presenting with Pillar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426015100/https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/EnterprisePharoBook/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/book-result/PillarChap/Pillar.html |archive-date=26 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}
• PUB – an early markup language with scripting support[http://www.nomodes.com/pub_manual.html PUB Manual]
• Remote Telescope Markup Language (RTML)
• reStructuredText (reSt) – plaintext platform-independent markup used as Python libraries documentation tool, multiple output formats (HTML, LaTeX, ODT, EPUB, ...){{Cite web|url=http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html|title = ReStructuredText|date = 24 May 2016}}
• 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{{cite conference |last1=Flatt |first1=M. |last2=Barzilay |first2=E. |last3=Findler |first3=R. B. |title=Scribble: Closing the Book on Ad Hoc Documentation Tools |book-title=International Conference on Functional Programming |year=2009}}{{cite web |url=https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/ |title=Scribble: The Racket Documentation Tool}}
• 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 HTMLSECST Markup Language [https://secst.org SECST Markup Language]
• Structured Information, Serialized Units (SiSU) – generalized markup language with several output formats{{cite web |url=http://www.sisudoc.org |title=≅ SiSU project sisudoc.org}}
• 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{{Cite web|title=TMML tutorial|url=https://sites.google.com/view/tmml|access-date=2019-10-29|website=sites.google.com|language=en-US}} (TMML) – for Time Management and rarely used for mobile alarm in 2008
• Typesetter roff (troff), GNU troff (groff)
• 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

• 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{{Cite book |url=https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-376-1_5th_edition_december_2016.zip |edition=5th |title=ECMA-376-1:2016: Office Open XML File Formats — Fundamentals and Markup Language Reference |publisher=Ecma-international.org |access-date=8 March 2025}}{{rp|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{{citation |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/15490806/RTF-Pocket-Guide-by-OReilly-Media |title=RTF Pocket Guide by O'Reilly Media |access-date=2010-03-13}}{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/product-description/0596004753 |title=RTF Pocket Guide |author=Sean M. Burke |website=Amazon UK |date=July 2003 |access-date=2010-03-13}}
• Uniform Office Format (UOF) – an open format for office documents that is being harmonised with OpenDocument{{as of when|date=March 2025}}

• Comparison of document markup languages
• Comparison of Office Open XML and OpenDocument
• Lightweight markup language
• Page description language

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