General Purpose, Lightweight, and Content Syndication Markup Languages

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This is a partial list of markup languages. The links pointed to are the most authoritative links I could find on each particular markup language. Note that I chose only the more popular markup languages for each category in order to give you an idea of the scope of use of markup languages.

General purpose markup languages

• Generalized Markup Language (GML) - the predecessor of SGML
• Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - a predecessor of XML
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) - Some resources: W3C XML, Cover Pages XML, XML.com

Lightweight markup language - Uses very simple syntax since they are designed for very simple text editors.

• BlogMe
• Markdown
• Ruby Document Format
• Texy!
• Wikitext

Content syndication markup languages - We are very familiar with the first two since it is what’s mostly used for web feeds.

• Atom - Both Atom Syndication Format (used for web feeds) and Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub or APP - used for creating and updating web resources)
• RSS
• Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML)

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