Concept information
Preferred term
markup language
Definition
- A type of formal language used for text-encoding that uses a set of symbols inserted in text to control its structure, formatting, or the relationship between its parts. They differ from programming languages by treating data as the primary element in the language.
Entry terms
- markup, markup languages
Source
- “Iso/Iec 2382:2015.” 2020. ISO. 2020. https://www.iso.org/standard/63598.html. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. 2023. “Markup Language.” In Encyclopedia Britannica. Munson, Ethan V. 2009. “Markup Language.” In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 1696–1696. Boston, MA: Springer US.
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Italian
URI
http://purl.org/knot/thesaurus/markup_language
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